40 Bible Verses about Commitment, to the world

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

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. And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the ministry of the reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their offenses, and has given to us the word of reconciliation. We are embassadors therefore for Christ, as though God besought you by us; we pray you, for Christ, be reconciled to God.

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.

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;

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. I ask not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from evil. They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

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.

and those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness? and what agreement has Christ with Beliar, or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.read more.
Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

employ your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.

teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

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,

Charge the rich in the present life not to be high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us all things richly to enjoy,

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.

And Jesus said to his disciples, I tell you truly, that a rich man will enter into the kingdom of heaven with difficulty.

And Jesus seeing him, said, With what difficulty do those who have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

And he told them a parable, saying, The farm of a certain rich man produced abundantly; and he reasoned in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have no place where I shall bring together my fruits? And he said, I will do this; I will take down my storehouses and build greater; and there will I bring together all my produce and my goods;read more.
and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years rest, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. But God said to him, Foolish man, this night they shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods which you have provided? So is every one that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich in God.

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and destroys himself, or loses his life?

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?

For what will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his life?

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.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

There is now a judgment of this world; the ruler of this world shall now be cast out;

and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

Let no man deceive you with vain words; for on account of these comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.

Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be not oppressed with revelling and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you suddenly;

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.

Be you also ready; for in an hour when you think not the Son of man comes.

But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need that I should write to you; for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. When they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.read more.
But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief; for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night; but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation, for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,