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 love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

General references

1 Samuel 8:20
that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
Proverbs 29:27
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
Luke 12:52
For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.