Do not love the world

You are not of the world. 1 You are but aliens and sojourners. 2

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 3

Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God. 4 Many are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. 5

If you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come. 6

I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. 7 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 8 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. 9

 

1 Jn 15.19 2 Lev 25.23 3 1Jn 2.15-16 4 Jam 4.4 5 Phil 3.18-19 6 Col 3.1-3,5-6 7 1Pt 2.11 8 Rom 12.2 9 1Jn 2.17