100 Bible Verses about Be Not Part Of The World

James 4:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 17:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 15:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 2:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

James 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 18:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

1 John 4:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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,

1 John 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 of life—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.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Philippians 3:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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 17:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

John 17:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

John 16:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 John 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 5:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Corinthians 10:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Corinthians 1:28-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

John 16:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 15:18-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 12:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

John 8:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 16:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Mark 8:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

Psalm 31:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ...

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

James 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

James 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Hebrews 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Titus 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

2 Timothy 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

1 Timothy 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Philippians 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Corinthians 10:1-13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ...

1 Corinthians 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Romans 1:20-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

John 18:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

John 17:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

John 15:18-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

John 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:1-18:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

John 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’

John 12:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

John 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

John 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

John 6:51 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

John 5:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...

John 4:1-9:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 4:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 3:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

John 2:1-15:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.” ...

John 2:1-16:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.” ...

Luke 6:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Mark 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.

Matthew 16:1-26:75 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. ...

Matthew 10:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 7:16-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.