John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
John 12:25
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
1 Corinthians 7:31
use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
James 4:4
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
1 John 2:15
[ On Not Loving the World ] Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
1 John 2:16
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:17
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
