Bible Verses about “worldliness”
The Bible contains 21 verses about worldliness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
“For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”
“¶ Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”
“Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
“Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”
“¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,”
“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”
“But ye have not so learned Christ;”
“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”
“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:”
“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;”
“Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;”
“And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;”
“Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:”
“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
“These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.”