Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Be not

Exodus 23:2
You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
Leviticus 18:29
"'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Deuteronomy 18:9
When you have come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
John 14:30
I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has no hold on me.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, to prevent the light shining from the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father?
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 Peter 1:14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
1 Peter 4:2
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
2 Peter 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
The great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Revelation 13:8
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Be ye

Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, new things have come.
Ephesians 1:18
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
Colossians 1:21
You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of rebirth and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Good

Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Romans 7:12
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Psalm 19:7
The LORD's Law is perfect, restoring the soul. The LORD's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalm 119:47
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

General references

Luke 22:26
But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.