9 Bible Verses about Worldliness, Avoid

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.

The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,