Worldliness: General Scriptures Concerning
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1 Samuel 8:19,20
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, No; but we will have a king over us;
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Job 20:4-29
Know you not this of old, since man was placed on earth,
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Job 21:11-15
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
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Psalm 49:16-18
Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
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Psalm 73:2-22
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well near slipped.
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Proverbs 14:12,13
There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
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Proverbs 15:21
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walks uprightly.
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Proverbs 21:17
He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
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Proverbs 23:20,21
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
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Proverbs 27:1,7
Boast not yourself of to morrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
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Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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Ecclesiastes 2:1-12
I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 6:11,12
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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Ecclesiastes 8:15-17
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things.
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Ecclesiastes 11:9,10
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
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Isaiah 22:12,13
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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Isaiah 24:7-11
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh.
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Isaiah 28:4
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
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Isaiah 32:9-11
Rise up, you women that are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech.
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Isaiah 47:7-9
And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
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Hosea 9:1,11,13
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward on every corn floor.
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Amos 6:3-7
You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
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Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Micah 2:10
Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
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Micah 6:14
You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall be in the middle of you; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword.
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Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.
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Matthew 6:25-34
Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
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Matthew 10:39
He that finds his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.
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Matthew 13:22
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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Matthew 16:25,26
For whoever will save his life shall lose it: and whoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
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Matthew 18:1-4
At the same time came the disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
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Matthew 22:2-6
The kingdom of heaven is like to a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
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Matthew 24:38,39
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
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Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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Mark 8:35-37
For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
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Mark 9:33-36
And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that you disputed among yourselves by the way?
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Luke 8:14
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
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Luke 9:46-48
Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
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Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
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Luke 14:17-24
And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
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Luke 16:1-13,19-25
And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.
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Luke 17:26-29,33
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
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Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come on you unawares.
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John 5:44
How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?
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John 12:25,43
He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.
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John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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1 Corinthians 7:29-31
But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
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1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantages it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
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Philippians 3:18,19
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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Colossians 3:2,5
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
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1 Timothy 5:6
But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
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2 Timothy 2:4,22
No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
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2 Timothy 3:2-7
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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Titus 2:12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Hebrews 11:24-26
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
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James 2:1-4
My brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
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James 4:4,9
You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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James 5:5
You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
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1 Peter 1:14,24
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
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1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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1 Peter 4:3,4
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, parties, and abominable idolatries:
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2 Peter 2:12-15,18
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
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1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Jude 1:11-13,16,19
Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
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General Index.
... Advent message, proclamation of, timely, 351-354. general proclamation of, 355-374. ...
worldliness of, in time of Christ, 378. ... see also Bible; Scriptures. ...
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A Warning Rejected.
... We have never witnessed such a general declension of ... of that fearful condition of
worldliness, backsliding, and ... and this motto, 'Search the Scriptures,' on her ...
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A Warning Rejected
... We have never witnessed such a general declension of ... of that fearful condition of
worldliness, backsliding, and ... and this motto, Search the Scriptures,' on her ...
/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 21 a warning rejected.htm

A Great Religious Awakening.
... They saw their backslidings, their worldliness and unbelief, their ... to be compared
with the Scriptures to establish ... When there was a general rejection of the ...
/.../20 a great religious awakening.htm

A Great Religious Awakening
... They saw their backslidings, their worldliness and unbelief, their ... to be compared
with the Scriptures to establish ... When there was a general rejection of the ...
/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 20 a great religious.htm

A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity
... of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether ... and dishonesty, and uncleanness,
and worldliness, and making ... own ways of entrance; but in general it first ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 30 1884/a summary of experience and.htm

Evil Habits and Injurious Indulgences.
... revelry," "living in pleasure," "rioting" and worldliness, of which ... are included,
however, in the general term "lust of ... is not found in the Scriptures, but its ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter xiv evil habits and.htm

The Truth in Jesus.
... take the trouble to convince him concerning the most ... yet more repelled by your general
worldliness than by ... would have answered, 'Search the Scriptures and see ...
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The Great Commission
... heard their beloved Master explaining the Scriptures in the ... would be in their
ranks"the General of the ... break through the crust of worldliness and selfishness ...
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Articles of Religion of the Reformed Episcopal Church in America. ...
... may, through unbelief, carelessness, and worldliness, fall into ... General Councils
(forasmuch as they be an assembly ... of life allowed by the Scriptures; but yet ...
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Resources
What does it mean that we are not to love the world? | GotQuestions.org

How can believers be in the world, but not of the world? | GotQuestions.org

How can I contribute to world evangelism? | GotQuestions.org

World: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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