What Does the Bible Say About The Ways Of The World?

James 4:4 ESV / 6 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.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Titus 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Acts 17:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 6:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 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.

Matthew 7:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ...

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

1 Peter 3:15-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

25 Bible Verses about The Ways Of The World

James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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25 Bible Verses about The Ways Of The World

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James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote