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 mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose 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 are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit.

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed, — read the full passage →

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

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

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →

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

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious 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 the food, and the body than the raiment? — read the full passage →

for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that is of God.

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

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

Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding maketh straight his going.

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

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves 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 fearful.

And one out of the multitude said unto him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. — read the full passage →

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

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

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, 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, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?

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

Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous 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 food according to their desire.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling words), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

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

This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

when the multitude therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day: — read the full passage →

and he sent forth 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 the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion 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 youth and the dawn of life 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 thy 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 gluttonous eaters of flesh:

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

Knowest thou notthis of old time, Since man was placed upon earth, — read the full passage →

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

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

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

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

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

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

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

But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none; — read the full passage →

and the cares of the 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 sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.

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

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was 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 one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? — read the full passage →

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

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

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

And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. — read the full passage →

And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house he asked them, What were ye reasoning on the way? — read the full passage →

In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? — read the full passage →

For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall 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 fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig 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, Jehovah 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 glad the life; and 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 joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun. — read the full passage →

For who knoweth what is good for man in his 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 weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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

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

And 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.

But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us,

Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, 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 Jehovah to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with 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 bullocks and seven rams. — read the full passage →

And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. — read the full passage →

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

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 fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks 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 went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. — read the full passage →