Nave’s Topical Bible
Worldliness
85 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
1 Samuel 8:19-20; Job 20:4-29; Job 21:11-15; Psalms 49:16-18; Psalms 73:2-22; Proverbs 14:12-13; Proverbs 15:21; Proverbs 21:17; Proverbs 23:20-21; Proverbs 27:1,7; Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 2:1-12; Ecclesiastes 6:11-12; Ecclesiastes 8:15-17; Ecclesiastes 10:19; Ecclesiastes 11:9-10; Isaiah 22:12-13; Isaiah 24:7-11; Isaiah 28:4; Isaiah 32:9-11; Isaiah 47:7-9; Hosea 9:1,11,13; Amos 6:3-7; Amos 8:10; Micah 2:10; Micah 6:14; Haggai 1:6; Matthew 6:25-34; Matthew 10:39; Matthew 13:22; Matthew 16:25-26; Matthew 18:1-4; Matthew 22:2-6; Matthew 24:38-39; Mark 4:19; Mark 8:35-37; Mark 9:33-36; Luke 8:14; Luke 9:46-48; Luke 12:19; Luke 14:17-24; Luke 16:1-13,19-25; Luke 17:26-29,33; Luke 21:34; John 5:44; John 12:25,43; John 15:19; Romans 12:2; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; 1 Corinthians 10:6; 1 Corinthians 15:32; Philippians 3:18-19; Colossians 3:2,5; 1 Timothy 5:6; 2 Timothy 2:4,22; 2 Timothy 3:2-7; Titus 2:12; Titus 3:3; Hebrews 11:24-26; James 2:1-4; James 4:4,9; James 5:5; 1 Peter 1:14,24; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Peter 4:3-4; 2 Peter 2:12-15,18; 1 John 2:15-17; Jude 1:11-13,16,19
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Bible verses about “Worldliness”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- 1 Samuel 8:19Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
- 1 Samuel 8:20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
- Job 20:4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 20:6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
- Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- Job 20:9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
- Job 20:10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
- Job 20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
- Job 20:13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- Job 20:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- Job 20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Job 20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- Job 20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
- Job 20:19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
- Job 20:20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
- Job 20:21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
- Job 20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
- Job 20:23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
- Job 20:24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- Job 20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
- Job 20:26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
- Job 20:27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
- Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- Job 20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
- Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- Job 21:12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Job 21:14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
- Psalms 49:16Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
- Psalms 49:17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
- Psalms 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
- Psalms 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
- Psalms 73:3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalms 73:4For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
- Psalms 73:5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.