Worldliness

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. — read the full passage →

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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.

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.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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.

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. — read the full passage →

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

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.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

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.

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.

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. — read the full passage →

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.

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. — read the full passage →

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; — read the full passage →

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? — read the full passage →

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: — read the full passage →

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. — read the full passage →

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. — read the full passage →

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, — read the full passage →

Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: — read the full passage →

And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. — read the full passage →

And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; — read the full passage →

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, — read the full passage →

And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. — read the full passage →

Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? — read the full passage →

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; — read the full passage →

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. — read the full passage →

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. — read the full passage →

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. — read the full passage →

So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? — read the full passage →

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. — read the full passage →

And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? — read the full passage →

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? — read the full passage →

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. — read the full passage →

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; — read the full passage →

Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. — read the full passage →

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. — read the full passage →

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. — read the full passage →

Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. — read the full passage →

And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →