TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
275 references in this topic.
Mark 9:36He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,Luke 8:14That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.Luke 9:46There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.Luke 9:47Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,Luke 9:48and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’Luke 14:17He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’Luke 14:18They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’Luke 14:19“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’Luke 14:20“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’Luke 14:21“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’Luke 14:22“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’Luke 14:23“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.Luke 14:24For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”Luke 16:1He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.Luke 16:2He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’Luke 16:3“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.Luke 16:4I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’Luke 16:5Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’Luke 16:6He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’Luke 16:7Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.Luke 16:9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.Luke 16:10He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.Luke 16:11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?Luke 16:12If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and mammon.”Luke 16:19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.Luke 16:20A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,Luke 16:21and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.Luke 16:22It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.Luke 16:23In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.Luke 16:24He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.Luke 17:26As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.Luke 17:27They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.Luke 17:28Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;Luke 17:29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.Luke 17:33Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.John 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?John 12:25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.John 12:43for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.John 15:19If 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.Romans 12:2Don’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.1 Corinthians 7:29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;1 Corinthians 7:30and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;1 Corinthians 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.1 Corinthians 15:32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”Philippians 3:18For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,Philippians 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.Colossians 3:2Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.Colossians 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;1 Timothy 5:6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.2 Timothy 2:4No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.2 Timothy 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.2 Timothy 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,2 Timothy 3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,2 Timothy 3:4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;