John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.
John 15:16
You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.
Luke 6:32
Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.
John 17:14-16
I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.
Ephesians 1:4-11
Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.
Ephesians 2:2-5
in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,
Titus 3:3-7
For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.
1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,
1 John 3:12
We must not be like Cain who belonged to 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 conquered these men, because 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, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, 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 against the woman, and he went off to make war with the rest of her descendants, who continue to keep God's commands and to bear testimony to Jesus.
Revelation 20:7-9
When the thousand years have ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison.