Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Were of the world

Bible References

Were of the world

Luke 6:32
If you [only] love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
1 John 4:4
Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].

General references

1 Samuel 8:20
so that we too may be like all the nations [around us], that our king may judge [and govern] us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man is repulsive to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way [of the Lord] is repulsive to the wicked.
Luke 12:52
for from now on five in one household will be divided [over Me], three against two and two against three.