John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
John 15:16
"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Luke 6:32
"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.
John 17:14-16
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
Ephesians 1:4-11
just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love
Ephesians 2:2-5
that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.
Titus 3:3-7
After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.
1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 4:3
For you spent enough time in the past doing what the gentiles like to do, living in sensuality, sinful desires, drunkenness, wild celebrations, drinking parties, and detestable idolatry.
1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother's actions were righteous.
1 John 4:4-5
Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 5:19-20
We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
The huge dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, along with its angels.
Revelation 12:17
The dragon became angry with the woman and went away to do battle against the rest of her children, the ones who keep God's commandments and hold on to the testimony about Jesus.
Revelation 20:7-9
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be freed from his prison.