John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.
John 15:16
You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit ??fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.
Luke 6:32
If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them.
John 17:14-16
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Ephesians 1:4-11
He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,
Ephesians 2:2-5
in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience
Titus 3:3-7
For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.
1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.
1 Peter 4:3
It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,
1 John 3:12
we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.
1 John 4:4-5
My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:19-20
We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.
Revelation 12:9
So the huge dragon was thrown down ??that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world ??thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.
Revelation 12:17
So, enraged at the woman, the dragon went off to wage war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep God's commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 20:7-9
But when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison,