Character & Virtues
Bible Verses About being like the world
12 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about being like the world? Browse 12 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: 1 John 2:15 |
|---|---|
| King James (KJV) | “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” |
12 Key Scriptures
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
1 John 2:15KJV
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Romans 12:2KJV
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
James 4:4KJV
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Matthew 6:24KJV
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. rudiments: or, elements make a prey: or, seduce you, or, lead you astray”
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.”
John 15:18KJV
“Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.”
1 John 3:13KJV
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
1 John 2:16KJV
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
“I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.”
John 12:46KJV
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16KJV
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
1 John 2:17KJV
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