John 17:14

Jesus Prays For His Disciples

¹³ "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves. ¹⁴  I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

Not of the World

Of the World

Do Not Belong To The World

John 8:23

And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

John 17:16

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Matthew 10:24-25

"A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his masters.

John 7:7

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

John 15:18-21

"do not forget that it hated me first.

1 Peter 4:4-5

They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

1 John 3:12

We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

1 John 4:5-6

They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

1 John 5:19-20

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One.