22 Flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord with a clean heart.
Bible verses about "worldliness" | NSB
2 Timothy 2:22
Jude 1:19
19 These cause divisions; they are sensual (worldly-minded) persons not having the Spirit.
1 Peter 1:14
14 Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.
1 Peter 2:11
11 Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
2 Timothy 2:4
4 No soldier entangles himself in the affairs of this life. That way, he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.
Ephesians 4:17-20
17 This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).
18 They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.
19 They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).
20 But you did not learn Christ that way.
2 Peter 2:12-15
12 But these are creatures without reason. They were born mere animals to be taken and destroyed! They speak abusively in matters of which they are ignorant. They suffer destruction in their own course of destruction.
13 They suffer wrong as their reward for wrongdoing. They are men that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.
14 They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.
15 They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.
John 15:19
19 »If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world.
Titus 2:12
12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time).
1 John 2:15-16
James 4:4
4 Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Colossians 3:2
2 Think about the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.
Romans 12:2
2 Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
1 John 2:15-17
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
17 The world and its desires (lusts) are passing away; but he who does the will of God lives forever.