1 John 2:15-16 NIV
 Do not love the world or anything in the world.   If anyone loves the world, love for the Father  is not in them.   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.
Galatians 1:10 NIV
 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?   If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
James 1:27 NIV
 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after   orphans and widows   in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.  
John 15:19 NIV
 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 15:23-24 NIV
 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them the works no one else did,   they would not be guilty of sin.   As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
John 17:14 NIV
 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,   for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.  
Matthew 6:24 NIV
 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.  
Romans 8:7 NIV
 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;   it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.