21 Bible Verses about Worldliness

For what will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own life?

For what will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own life?

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friend ship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.

And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become heavy with reveling and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day come upon you when you look not for it.

teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age;

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own life? Or, what will a man give as the ransom of his life?

And the world and its desire passes away: but he that does the will of God, abides forever.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal.

For what will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and destroy himself, or be lost?

who have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain: and, in the error of Balaam, they have rushed headlong after reward, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.

You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age; and he has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.

But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till the day in which Noah entered the ark, and knew not, till the flood came and took them all away: so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

saying: The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat: therefore, all things that they command you to observe, observe and do. But do not according to their works: for they command, and do not.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:

He that received seed among the thorns, is he that hears the word; and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod. Wherefore he promised, with an oath, to give her whatever she would ask.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said: The Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.