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Dont Love The World

 

1 John 2:15 ESV / 139 helpful votes

 

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

James 4:4 ESV / 138 helpful votes

 

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 122 helpful votes

 

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 3:16 ESV / 120 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 92 helpful votes

 

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 80 helpful votes

 

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 77 helpful votes

 

“No one can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 72 helpful votes

 

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

James 1:27 ESV / 60 helpful votes

 

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

John 14:27 ESV / 60 helpful votes

 

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 51 helpful votes

 

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

 

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 50 helpful votes

 

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 John 2:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes

 

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 49 helpful votes

 

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 48 helpful votes

 

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 John 3:13 ESV / 46 helpful votes

 

Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

 

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 44 helpful votes

 

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 43 helpful votes

 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes

 

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 16:33 ESV / 40 helpful votes

 

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 8:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes

 

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

1 John 4:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes

 

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 38 helpful votes

 

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

We love because he first loved us.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes

 

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

John 15:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes

 

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes

 

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 John 5:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 4:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 33 helpful votes

 

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes

 

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

 

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

 

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

John 4:1-9:41 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...

John 3:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

John 3:1-17:26 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

John 3:1-3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 2:1-15:27 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ...

Matthew 5:1-18:35 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Philippians 3:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Mark 8:36 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 1:28-29 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.