John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.
John 15:16
It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.
Luke 6:32
If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.
John 17:14-16
I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Ephesians 1:4-11
Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.
Ephesians 2:2-5
in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.
Titus 3:3-7
For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.
1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;
1 Peter 4:3
You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.
1 John 3:12
We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.
1 John 4:4-5
You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:19-20
We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Revelation 12:17
So the dragon was enraged at the woman, and he went off to make war on the rest of her children??hose who obey God's commands and adhere to the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 20:7-9
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison,