16 Bible Verses about Unworldliness

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world,

No man who enters the army involves himself with secular affairs; that he may please the person who hath enlisted him.

By faith Moses, when he became a grown man, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

choosing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God, than to have a temporary fruition of sin;

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For every thing which is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pomp of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust thereof, but he who doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Be not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship [is there] between light and darkness? and what concord of Christ with Belial? or what share hath he that believeth with an infidel? or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will inhabit in them, and walk about in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be for me a people."read more.
"Wherefore go forth from the midst of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you, and I will be as a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

But seek ye, in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be given you over. Be not therefore anxious about to-morrow: for tomorrow will provide for its own wants. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

I am crucified with Christ, yet I live; though no more I, but Christ liveth in me: and my present life in the flesh, is a life by faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and delivered up himself for me.

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Fix your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.

For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men, instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day; expecting the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;read more.
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak and enjoin, and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us, earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.