21 Bible Verses about Worldliness
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Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.
for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
In the midst of its broad plain and along the river on each side was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, and yielding monthly each of its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; again I leave the world and go to the Father.
And he said to them, You are from below; I am from above; you are from this world; I am not from this world.
And taking him up he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to him, All this power will I give you, and the glory of these; for it is given to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, therefore, will worship me, it all shall be yours.read more.
And Jesus answered and said to him, It is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him alone shall you serve.
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom had been of this world my officers would have fought for me, that I should not be given up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not here.
If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you,
and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication, that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor, not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,
teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance, but as he that called you is holy be you also holy in all [your] conduct, because it is written, Be you holy, for I am holy.
For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries, in which they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excessive intemperance, blaspheming,
for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.
And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we also are.
As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but especially to the members of the family of the faith.
From Thematic Bible
spiritual Loss » Causes of » Worldliness
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Worldliness
Repression of evil » Seven evils to be repressed » Worldliness
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Seven » Evils to be repressed » Worldliness
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Worldliness » Warnings against
Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.
Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be not oppressed with revelling and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you suddenly;
teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,
and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his life? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » Unprofitable
And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.
For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and destroys himself, or loses his life?
Worldliness » Instances of » balaam
having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,
Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah.
Worldliness » Instances of » jacob
Worldliness » Instances of » israelites
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Leads to religious apostasy
You have lived in luxury on the earth and in pleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;
Worldliness » Instances of » Esau
that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Makes earthly affections supreme
But I wish you to be without cares. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In false worship
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In bad governmental policies
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Deludes men into a state of false security
For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till the day that Noah entered the ark, and knew not till the flood came and took them all away, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In following a bad example
saying, The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. All things therefore which they tell you, do and keep. But do not their works. For they say and do not,
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In heathenish practices
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Moulds the activities and plans of life
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Destroys the influence of the truth
And he that received seed among thorns is he that hears the word, and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In committing popular sins
Worldliness » Instances of » Eli's sons
Worldliness » Instances of » Gehazi
Worldliness » Instances of » Judah
Worldliness » Instances of » Herod antipas
And Herod's birthday being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod, on account of which he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask;
Worldliness » Instances of » Cretans
A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.
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Romans 12:2and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
