Being Like The World

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — read the full passage →

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. — read the full passage →

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Woe,whenmen speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.