John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Luke 6:32
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For 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 do not belong to the world.
Ephesians 1:4-11
For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.
Ephesians 2:2-5
in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
Titus 3:3-7
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
1 John 3:12
not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.
1 John 4:4-5
You are from God, little children, and have conquered 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 the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.
Revelation 12:17
So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, those who keep God's commandments and hold to the testimony about Jesus. And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.
Revelation 20:7-9
Now when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released from his prison