Worldliness

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 2 Timothy 3:2-7 NT

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, traitors,…

• Titus 2:12 NT

  instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

• Titus 3:3 NT

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• Hebrews 11:24-26 NT

  By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, considering the reproach of Christ greater…

• James 2:1-4 NT

  My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, and you pay special attention…

• James 4:4 NT

  You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

• James 4:9 NT

  Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

• James 5:5 NT

  You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

• 1 Peter 1:14 NT

  as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

• 1 Peter 1:24 NT

  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

• 1 Peter 2:11 NT

  Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

• 1 Peter 4:3 NT

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• 1 Peter 4:4 NT

  They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

• 2 Peter 2:12-15 NT

  But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who…

• 2 Peter 2:18 NT

  For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

• 1 John 2:15-17 NT

  Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but…

• Jude 1:1 NT

  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

• Genesis 25:30-34 OT

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom. Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.” Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to…

• Hebrews 12:16 NT

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

• Genesis 25:31-34 OT

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.” Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?” Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob. Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil…

• Genesis 27:36 OT

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 30:37-43 OT

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the…

• Genesis 37:26 OT

  Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

• Genesis 37:27 OT

  Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.