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Worldliness 1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 108 helpful votes 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 in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.Romans 12:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes 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.Colossians 3:2 ESV / 70 helpful votes Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.James 4:4 ESV / 56 helpful votes 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.John 15:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes 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.Titus 2:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,1 John 2:15-16 ESV / 33 helpful votes 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 in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.Jude 1:19 ESV / 27 helpful votes It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 22 helpful votes As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.2 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.Ephesians 4:17-20 ESV / 18 helpful votes 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. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!—2 Peter 2:12-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,1 Timothy 5:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.Jude 1:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion.John 17:15-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.Hebrews 11:24-26 ESV / 10 helpful votes By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.Luke 21:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.Luke 16:1-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed
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