21 Bible Verses about Worldliness

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and suffer damage as to his soul?

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and suffer damage as to his soul?

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with gluttony and drunkenness, and anxieties pertaining to life, and that day come upon you suddenly as a snare;

teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and righteously, and godly in the present age;

and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

for what will a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, and suffer damage as to his soul? or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?

And the world is passing away, and the desire thereof; but be that does the will of God abides forever.

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through, and steal;

For what is a man profited, in having gained the whole world, but having lost or forfeited himself?

leaving the right way, they were led astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

Woe to them, because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balsam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah!

Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

for Demas forsook me, having loved this present age, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens, to Galatia; Titus, to Dalmatia.

lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right.

But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

For, as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat. All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works; for they say and do not.

in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;

And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that hears the word; and the anxiety of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But, on a birthday celebration of Herod, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always false, evil beasts, idle gluttons."