27 Bible Verses About Not Following The World

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God”

— Romans 12:2

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth”

— Colossians 3:2

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God”

— James 4:4

“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ”

— Philippians 3:20

“teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world”

— Titus 2:12

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon”

— Matthew 6:24

“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you”

— John 15:19

“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world”

— Galatians 6:14

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them”

— Ephesians 5:11

“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution”

— 2 Timothy 3:12

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

— Matthew 16:26

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues”

— Revelation 18:4

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death”

— Proverbs 14:12

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

— Jeremiah 17:9

“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners”

— 1 Corinthians 15:33

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

— 2 Corinthians 6:14

“I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world”

— John 17:14

“wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience”

— Ephesians 2:2

“Wherefore Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch not the unclean thing; And I will receive you”

— 2 Corinthians 6:17

“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ”

— 1 Corinthians 11:1

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”

— 2 Corinthians 5:17

“who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son”

— Colossians 1:13

“Abstain from all appearance of evil”

— 1 Thessalonians 5:22

“And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine”

— Leviticus 20:26

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites”

— Joshua 24:15

“And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the hea”

— 2 Kings 17:15

“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”

— Matthew 4:4