Bible Verses About Being Like the World
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being like the world, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,071 votes, led by 1 John 2:15-17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Like the World
1 John 2:15-17704 votes
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.
Romans 12:2605 votes
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.
1 John 2:15402 votes
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.
James 4:4374 votes
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.
Matthew 6:24268 votes
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.
Colossians 2:8228 votes
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.
John 15:18-21221 votes
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
1 John 3:13220 votes
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
1 John 2:16201 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:11185 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
John 12:46183 votes
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
John 3:16152 votes
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.
1 John 2:17138 votes
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Hebrews 13:5136 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Romans 12:1-2123 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
John 8:12116 votes
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Romans 14:1-23112 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Matthew 7:13111 votes
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
2 Corinthians 4:4111 votes
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Galatians 2:20101 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
2 Peter 3:989 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Matthew 5:1684 votes
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:1784 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
1 Thessalonians 5:2281 votes
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Psalms 119:10577 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
What does the Bible say about being like the world?
Readers most often cite 1 John 2:15-17 on the subject of being like the world. Across 8,071 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 12:2, 1 John 2:15, James 4:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.