TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
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2 Timothy 3:5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!2 Timothy 3:6They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,2 Timothy 3:7who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.Titus 1:12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.Hebrews 11:24By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.Hebrews 11:25He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.Hebrews 11:26He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.Hebrews 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.James 2:1My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.James 2:2Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.James 2:3If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”James 2:4have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?James 4:4You 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 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.James 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.1 Peter 1:14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.1 Peter 4:4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.2 Peter 2:12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.2 Peter 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.2 Peter 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.1 John 2:15Do 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 2:16For 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 2:17The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.Jude 1:11Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.Jude 1:19These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
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