Bible Verses About Worldliness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for worldliness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 714 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 Worldliness
1 John 2:15-17127 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 12:285 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.
Colossians 3:282 votes
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
James 4:464 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.
John 15:1946 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.
Titus 2:1244 votes
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
1 John 2:15-1636 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.
Jude 1:1931 votes
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
1 Peter 1:1425 votes
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
2 Timothy 2:424 votes
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
1 Peter 2:1123 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Ephesians 4:17-2020 votes
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
2 Timothy 2:2220 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Peter 2:12-1518 votes
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
1 Timothy 5:613 votes
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
Matthew 13:2212 votes
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Jude 1:1112 votes
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Luke 21:3411 votes
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
John 17:15-1611 votes
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Luke 16:1-1310 votes
And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
What does the Bible say about worldliness?
Readers most often cite 1 John 2:15-17 on the subject of worldliness. Across 714 votes, 20 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 12:2, Colossians 3:2, James 4:4. This page lists all 20 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.