For many impostors have gone out into the world, men who do not own that Jesus Christ continues to come in human form. A person like this is the impostor and the Antichrist.

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.

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

They are children of the world; this is why they speak what the world inspires, and why the world listens to them.

You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

and if He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others when He brought the flood upon the world of godless people;

because everything that is in the world, the things that our lower nature and eyes are longing for, and the proud pretensions of life, do not come from the Father, but from the world;

for every child of God continues to conquer the world. Our faith is the victory that has conquered the world.

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come.

He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

He continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this present world; I do not belong to this present world.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

This world is now in process of judgment; the prince of this world is now to be expelled.

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

I did come from the Father and I have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

And now I am no longer to be in the world, but they are to stay on in the world, while I am going to be with you. Holy Father, keep them by the power which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.

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.

Just as you have sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, too.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would have been fighting to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as a matter of fact, my kingdom does not come from such a source."

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

Yet, when among mature believers we do set forth a wisdom, but a wisdom that does not belong to this world or to the leaders of this world who are passing away;

not that you are to stop all dealings with sexually immoral people of this world, any more than with its greedy graspers, or its idolaters, for then you would have to get clear out of the world.

Do you not know that God's people are to judge the world? And if the world is to be judged before you, are you unfit to try such petty cases?

and those who are enjoying the world as though they were not entirely absorbed in it. For the outward order of this world is passing away.

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

far above every other government, authority, power, and dominion, yea, far above every other title that can be conferred, not only in this world but in the world to come.

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,

The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man's, and the fourth was like an eagle flying.

The wild beast which I saw was like a leopard, but his feet were like a bear's, and his mouth was like a lion's mouth. To him the dragon gave his own power and throne with great authority.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

Now who is qualified for such a task? I am, for I am not a peddler of God's message, like the most of them, but like a man of sincerity, like a man that is sent from God and living in His presence, in union with Christ I speak His message.

But when I saw that they were not living up to the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, and that before them all, "If you are living like a heathen and not like a Jew, although you are a Jew yourself, why do you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, with perfect purity.

and their message will spread like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,

And you will fold them up just like a robe, and they will be changed like the changing of one's coat, but you are the same, and your years will never cease."

For "All human life is just like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass dries up; the flowers drop off.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

But you must avoid forgetting this one fact, dearly beloved, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day.

His feet were like bronze refined to white heat in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.

"To the messenger of the church in Thyatira write: 'The Son of God, whose eyes are like coals of fire, and whose feet are like bronze refined to white heat, speaks as follows:

The One who was seated on it looked like jasper or sardius, and around the throne there was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.

The locusts look like horses armed for battle; on their heads were what appeared to be crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces;

they had hair that looked like women's hair; their teeth were like lions' teeth;

In my vision the horses and the horsemen looked like this: Their breastplates were red, blue, and yellow; the horses' heads were like lions' heads, and fire, smoke, and sulphur kept pouring out of their mouths.

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was clothed in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire,

Then I saw another wild beast coming up out of the land. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.

And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of great waters and the rumbling of loud thunders. The sound that I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

"Listen! I am sending you out as sheep surrounded by wolves. So you must be sensible like serpents and guileless like doves.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!