Not Of This World

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not--but I chose out of the world--because of this the world hateth you.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

`Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ-- — read the full passage →

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; — read the full passage →

and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain--to the age.

They--of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; — read the full passage →

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world.

Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

From their fruits ye shall know them; do <FI>men<Fi> gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? — read the full passage →

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me--in the darkness may not remain;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But--in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say <FI>it<Fi> ; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

for nothing did we bring into the world--<FI> it is<Fi> manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age--let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless-- — read the full passage →

I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world; — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

`And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love,

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful--the true who will entrust to you?

`I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was <FI>one<Fi> coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, — read the full passage →

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

and early in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, they come unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things, — read the full passage →

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,