21 Bible Verses about Worldliness

For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?

For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap.

training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.

"Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them,

What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

They have left the straight path and gone astray. They have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on dishonest gain,

Alas for them, for they follow Cain's path, they plunge into Balaam's error for gain, and they perish in rebelliousness like Korah's.

You have lived luxuriously and voluptuously here on earth; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

I want you to be free from all anxiety. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's work, and how he can please the Lord. A married man is concerned about worldly affairs, and how he can please his wife, and so his interests are divided.

For just as in those days before the flood people were eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark, and knew nothing about it until the flood came and destroyed them all, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat. So do everything they tell you, and observe it all, but do not do as they do, for they talk but do not act.

in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing.

But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter danced before the company. And Herod was delighted with her, and swore that he would give her anything she asked for.

It was a Cretan, a prophet of their own, who said, "Cretans are always liars, savage brutes, lazy gluttons,"