42 Bible Verses about Commitment, to the world

who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is set in the evil.

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.

in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.

Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the he

Because of which, the precious and greatest promises have been given to us, so that through these ye might become companions of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in lust.

Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

And all things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of reconciliation. How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil. They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

And with many more other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this crooked generation.

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what share have believers with non-believers? And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me.read more.
Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from there. Touch no unclean thing. Go ye out of the midst of her. Cleanse yourselves, ye who bear the vessels of LORD.

so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,

And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, that a rich man will enter into the kingdom of the heavens difficultly.

And having seen him become very sorrowful, Jesus said, How difficultly those who have riches will enter into the kingdom of God.

And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth well. And he pondered within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have nowhere I will store my crops? And he said, I will do this. I will dismantle my barns, and I will build greater, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.read more.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be? So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?

For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

And that which was sown in the thorns, this is he who hears the word, and the care of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

But when we are judged by Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

and about judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged.

Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.

For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until that day Noah entered into the ark. And they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of man.

Therefore, ye also become ready, because the Son of man comes at that hour ye do not suppose.

But about the times and the seasons, brothers, ye have no need to be written to you. For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.read more.
But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief. Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night. But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation. Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.