James 1:27
pure and unadulterated religion, in the eye of God our father, consists in taking care of orphans and widows in their distress: and in keeping clear of the vices of the age.
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.
Romans 12:2
and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.
James 4:4
Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 25:34-46
the king shall say to those on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Luke 1:6
they were both of them sincerely pious; observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord; with unspotted reputation.
Galatians 6:9-10
let us then not be weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we be not tired.
Colossians 3:1-3
If then you are risen with Christ, seek the things, that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 5:4
if a widow has children or grand-children, let them above all things instruct their own family to be religious, and let them be grateful to their parents, for this is acceptable to God.
James 3:17
but wisdom deriv'd from heaven is first dispassionate, then pacific, equitable, and obsequious: full of beneficence, and all social virtue, free from partiality, and hypocrisy.
1 John 3:17-19
he that possesses the enjoyments of life, and seeing his brother in want, has no compassion for him, how can he be said to have any divine love?
1 John 5:4-5
for he that is a true christian, overcomes the world: by obtaining faith, we have gain'd a victory over the world.
1 John 5:18
we know that a true christian will not commit such a sin, for he that is the child of God keeps upon his guard, so that the wicked spirit does not approach him.
1 Timothy 1:5
such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief:
John 17:14-15
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Galatians 1:4
that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to
Galatians 5:6
for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith.
Galatians 6:14
but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world.