We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God,
Synonyms for World: earth, globe, planet, nature, cosmos, creation, universe, life, macrocosm, sphere, biosphere, ecosphere, and existence
Mark 8:35-37 (NLT)
If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. 36. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? 37. Is anything worth more than your soul?
Mark 16:15-16 (NLT)
And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. 16. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.
John 3:16-17 (NLT)
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
John 14:27 (NLT)
“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
Romans 1:20 (NLT)
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
Romans 12:2 (NLT)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
1 Corinthians 1:28-29 (NLT)
God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29. As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
2 Corinthians 10:3-4
We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
1 Timothy 6:7 (NLT)
After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it.
Titus 2:11-12 (NLT)
For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. 12. And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God,
James 1:27 (NLT)
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
James 4:4 (NLT)
You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
2 Peter 1:4 (NLT)
And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
1 John 2:2 (NLT)
He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.
1 John 2:15-17 (NLT)
Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. 17. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
1 John 3:1 (NLT)
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
1 John 5:4-5 (NLT)
For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. 5. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
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