Bible Verses About Not of This World
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for not of this world, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,100 votes, led by John 15:19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Not of This World
John 15:19472 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.
Romans 12:2469 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.
John 18:36374 votes
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
1 John 2:15358 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 17:14265 votes
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
1 John 2:15-17263 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.
Colossians 3:2217 votes
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
John 17:16214 votes
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 8:23159 votes
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
James 4:4155 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.
1 John 5:19134 votes
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Ephesians 6:12129 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.
Philippians 3:20-21127 votes
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
John 15:18-1999 votes
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
1 John 2:1790 votes
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
John 3:1681 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 4:579 votes
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
Philippians 3:2069 votes
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 12:1-266 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.
James 1:2762 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.
Matthew 6:2459 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.
1 John 2:1655 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.
Matthew 7:16-2054 votes
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Revelation 21:1-2754 votes
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
John 17:1553 votes
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
What does the Bible say about not of this world?
Readers most often cite John 15:19 on the subject of not of this world. Across 6,100 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 12:2, John 18:36, 1 John 2:15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.