TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
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Mark 9:36Then He had a little child stand among them. Taking the child in His arms, He said to them,Luke 8:14The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.Luke 9:46Then an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.Luke 9:47But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.Luke 9:48And He said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes the One who sent Me. For whoever is the least among all of you, he is the greatest.”Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’Luke 14:17When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’Luke 14:18But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’Luke 14:19Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. Please excuse me.’Luke 14:20Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’Luke 14:21The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’Luke 14:22‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’Luke 14:23So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.Luke 14:24For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”Luke 16:1Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.Luke 16:2So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’Luke 16:3The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.Luke 16:4I know what I will do so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’Luke 16:5And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.Luke 16:6‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take your bill,’ said the manager, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’Luke 16:7Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.Luke 16:8The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.Luke 16:9I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.Luke 16:10Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.Luke 16:11So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?Luke 16:12And if you have not been faithful with the belongings of another, who will give you belongings of your own?Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.Luke 16:20And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with soresLuke 16:21and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.Luke 16:24So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.Luke 17:26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.Luke 17:28It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.Luke 17:33Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.John 5:44How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?John 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.John 12:43For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.John 15:19If 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.Romans 12:2Do 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.1 Corinthians 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;1 Corinthians 7:30those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;1 Corinthians 7:31and 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 10:6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.1 Corinthians 15:32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”Philippians 3:18For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.Colossians 3:2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.1 Timothy 5:6But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.2 Timothy 2:4A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.2 Timothy 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.2 Timothy 3:2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,2 Timothy 3:3unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,2 Timothy 3:4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,