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
For if you love those who love you, what thanks do you have? For sinners also love those who love them.
1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

General references

1 Samuel 8:20
And we shall be, also we, like all the nations, so that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.
Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is a hateful thing to the just; and he who is upright in the way is hateful to the wicked.
Luke 12:52
For from now on, there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.