21 Bible Verses about Worldliness
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(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.
for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,
Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;
through the streets of the City; on both sides of the river grew the tree of Life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit; and the leaves served to heal the nations.
From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father."
He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world.
Then he lifted Jesus up and showed him all the realms of the universe in a single instant; and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose. If you will worship before me, then it shall all be yours."read more.
Jesus answered him, "It is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.
Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,
Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.
It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice, that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably, not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.
and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,
Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance; as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct ??16 for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.
It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry, and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,
for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.
I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.
From Thematic Bible
spiritual Loss » Causes of » Worldliness
What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Worldliness
What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?
Repression of evil » Seven evils to be repressed » Worldliness
Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
Seven » Evils to be repressed » Worldliness
Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
Worldliness » Warnings against
(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.
Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.
and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,
Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.
What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » Unprofitable
and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.
Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:
What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
Worldliness » Instances of » balaam
they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing ??16 but he got reproved for his malpractice: a dumb ass spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's infatuation.
Woe to them! they go the road of Cain, rush into Balaam's error for what it brings them, and perish in Korah's rebellion.
Worldliness » Instances of » jacob
Worldliness » Instances of » israelites
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Leads to religious apostasy
You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;
for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,
Worldliness » Instances of » Esau
that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did ??Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Makes earthly affections supreme
I want you to be free from all anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's affairs, how best to satisfy the Lord; the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy his wife ??34 so he is torn in two directions. The unmarried woman or the maid is also anxious about the Lord's affairs, how to be consecrated, body and spirit; once married, she is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy her husband.
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In false worship
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In bad governmental policies
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Deludes men into a state of false security
For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark; and as they knew nothing till the deluge came and swept them all away; so will the arrival of the Son of man be.
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In following a bad example
"The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses; so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In heathenish practices
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Moulds the activities and plans of life
in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience
Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Destroys the influence of the truth
As for him who is sown 'among thorns,' that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » In committing popular sins
Worldliness » Instances of » Eli's sons
Worldliness » Instances of » Gehazi
Worldliness » Instances of » Judah
Worldliness » Instances of » Herod antipas
However, on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced in public to the delight of Herod; whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she wanted.
Worldliness » Instances of » Cretans
It has been said by one of themselves, by a prophet of their own, that ??"Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
Topics on Worldliness
Worldliness, Avoid
Romans 12:2Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.
