Bible verses about The World
Verses about the world's pull and how believers are to live in it.
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
John 15:19I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
John 17:14I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
John 17:15We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
1 John 5:19Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:15For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:16The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
1 John 2:17Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
John 16:33See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
Colossians 2:8They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:5But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6:14Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
1 Peter 2:11Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
1 Peter 2:12and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
1 Corinthians 7:31The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 4:4You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:14