Bible Verses About Friendship with the World
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for friendship with the world, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 634 votes, led by James 4:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Friendship with the World
James 4:4108 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.
Romans 12:277 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 2:1557 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.
1 John 3:1353 votes
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
1 John 5:1950 votes
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 John 2:1-2939 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
James 4:1-1728 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James 1:2724 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
1 John 3:121 votes
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Peter 2:118 votes
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
1 John 2:15-1718 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.
John 15:1915 votes
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
2 Peter 1:1-2115 votes
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
1 John 3:1-2415 votes
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
John 3:1613 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.
2 Corinthians 11:313 votes
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Ephesians 6:1213 votes
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
1 Corinthians 15:3312 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
2 Timothy 3:112 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
1 John 4:412 votes
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 1:711 votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 Peter 1:6-710 votes
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
What does the Bible say about friendship with the world?
Readers most often cite James 4:4 on the subject of friendship with the world. Across 634 votes, 22 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 12:2, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 3:13. This page lists all 22 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.