100 Bible Verses about Dont Love The World

1 John 2:15 ESV / 194 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 / 179 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 3:16 ESV / 158 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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 157 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.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 128 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.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 110 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.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 104 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.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 96 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 14:27 ESV / 84 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.

James 1:27 ESV / 82 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.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 78 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 76 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?

Luke 1:37 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 2:17 ESV / 70 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 3:13 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 16:33 ESV / 61 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 4:7-8 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 John 4:5 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 57 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.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 56 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 8:12 ESV / 56 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.”

1 John 2:2 ESV / 55 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.

Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 55 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,

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 54 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,

John 15:13 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 4:19 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We love because he first loved us.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 5:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 5:5 ESV / 49 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 / 49 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.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 15:19 ESV / 49 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 4:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 47 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 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 46 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.

Philippians 3:20 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 15:18-21 ESV / 44 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.

1 John 4:4 ESV / 43 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 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 43 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 John 3:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 42 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 14:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Mark 8:36 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let all that you do be done in love.

John 4:1-9:41 ESV / 40 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. ...

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Psalm 31:19 ESV / 40 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!

1 John 2:15-16 ESV / 39 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.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 39 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.

John 3:2 ESV / 39 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 / 39 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.”

Mark 16:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 5:1-18:35 ESV / 39 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. ...

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

2 Corinthians 10:3 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 38 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 1:28-29 ESV / 38 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.

John 2:1-15:27 ESV / 38 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.” ...

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

John 16:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 4:1-54 ESV / 36 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. ...

1 John 4:7 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Titus 2:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Philippians 2:9-10 ESV / 35 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,

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 3:2 ESV / 35 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,

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 1:20-22 ESV / 35 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 2:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

Mark 16:2 ESV / 35 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.

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Psalm 108:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Genesis 1:1-28:22 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

John 5:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 2:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 6:35 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Psalm 108:3 ESV / 34 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 24:1 ESV / 34 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,

Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 34 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 / 34 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;

1 John 4:18 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

John 2:1-16:33 ESV / 33 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.” ...

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Matthew 16:1-26:75 ESV / 31 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. ...

Proverbs 23:17 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 30 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 12:31 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:1-17:26 ESV / 29 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.” 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. ...

1 John 2:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.