21 Bible Verses about Worldliness

What good is it to a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

What good is it to a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.

leading us to renounce irreligious ways and worldly ambitions, and to live discreet, upright, and religious lives here in this present world,

Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

What good will it do a man to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? or what will a man give that is of equal value with his life?

And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but he who does God's will remains for ever.

Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

What good does it do a man if, when he has gained the whole world, he has lost or forfeited himself?

Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam's love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like that of Korah.

You have lived on earth a life of extravagance and luxury; you have indulged your fancies in a time of bloodshed.

for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master's Cause, desiring to please him; While the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;

In those days before the flood they went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, Taking not notice till the flood came and swept them one and all away; and so will it be at the Coming of the Son of Man.

"The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses. Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they tell preach but do not practice.

For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

By the seed which was sown among the brambles is meant the man who hears the Message, but the cares of life and the glamour of wealth completely choke the Message, so that it gives no return.

But, when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before his guests, and so pleased Herod, That he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true.