Discover powerful Bible verses that address worldliness and love for the worldly. Find divine inspiration to distance yourself from earthly temptations and seek a life guided by the love of God. Immerse yourself in sacred teachings and transform your perspective with these impactful biblical quotes!
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
And those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.