Not Of This World

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? — read the full passage →

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: — read the full passage →

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

They will do these thingsbecause they have not known the Father, nor me.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things, — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.