Bible Verses about “worldliness”

“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.”

“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.”

“Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

“being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;”

“Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

“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.”

“who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”

“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,”

“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.”

“But you did not learn Christ that way;”

“instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;”

“as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,”

“But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,”

“forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;”

“receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;”

“having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;”

“No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.”

“These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.”