Bible Verses about “not of this world”
The Bible contains 16 verses about not of this world across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
“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.”
“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”
“Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.”
“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.”
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
“We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
“Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."”
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;”
“who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.”
“He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.”
“They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.”
“I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”