100 Bible Verses about You Are In This World But Not Of The World

1 John 2:15 ESV / 13 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.

James 4:4 ESV / 11 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.

John 17:14 ESV / 11 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.

John 15:19 ESV / 10 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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 9 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 18:36 ESV / 8 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.”

James 1:27 ESV / 7 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 16:33 ESV / 7 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.”

1 John 4:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 2:16 ESV / 5 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.

John 17:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 8:23 ESV / 5 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.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 4 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 5:4 ESV / 4 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 2:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 17:1-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

John 12:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

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

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

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3 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.

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.

1 Timothy 6:2 ESV / 3 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.

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

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

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

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

John 17:14-16 ESV / 3 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 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 3:17 ESV / 3 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.

Mark 16:2 ESV / 3 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 16:26 ESV / 3 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?

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. ...

Revelation 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

1 John 5:5 ESV / 2 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 3:1 ESV / 2 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.

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

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

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

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

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 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

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

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

Hebrews 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 2 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,

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.

1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 2 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.

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.

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 6:12 ESV / 2 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.

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

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

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 2 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 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 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 2 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 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 1:28-29 ESV / 2 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.

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 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,

Romans 1:20 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.

John 17:15 ESV / 2 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 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

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

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

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

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ...

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 15:18-19 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.

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 14:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

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 8:12 ESV / 2 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 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 3:16 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.

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 2:1-16:33 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.” ...

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.” ...

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

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

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

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 12:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 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.

Matthew 5:1-18:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. ...

Jeremiah 29:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Psalm 108:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.

Psalm 108:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

Psalm 57:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!

Psalm 31:19 ESV / 2 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!

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

Exodus 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;