Bible Verses about “friendship with the world”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

“Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”

“Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."”

“But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?”

“One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.”

“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”

“As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.”

“This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.”

“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”

“Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.”

“And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”

“But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

“My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.”

“You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.”

“They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.”

“Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.”

“But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:”

“He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.”

“Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.”

“My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.”

“I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”

“These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.”

“Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”

“Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.”

“Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.”

“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”

“If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.”

“Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?”

“Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.”

“Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.”

“I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.”

“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”

“I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.”

“I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.”

“This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.”

“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”

“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

“Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.”

“For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.”

“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”

“But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.”

“Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."”

“For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."”