Bible verses about "worldliness" | ACV

²² And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

⁴ No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in the Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart. ¹⁹ Who, having become callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness for the work of all uncleanness in greed. ²⁰ But ye did not so learn the Christ,

¹⁹ These are those who make divisions, world-soul men, not having Spirit.

¹⁴ As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. ¹² But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption, ¹³ getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse, ¹⁵ having forsaken a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own, but because ye are not of the world (instead I chose you out of the world), because of this the world hates you.

¹² disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

² Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.

² And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.