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escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved,
flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.”
1 John 3:1
: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.”
1 John 2:15-17
: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in
the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the
will of God abideth forever.”
2 Peter 2:20
: “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the
world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse
with them than the beginning.”
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James 4:4
: “Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity
with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God.”
James 1:27
: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father
is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to
keep himself unspotted from the world.”
Titus 2:12
: “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly
lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world.”
Romans 12:2
: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
John 17:14, 15, 17
: “I have given them Thy word; and the world
hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not
of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” “Sanctify
them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth.”
Luke 6:22, 23
: “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and
when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach
you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice
ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in
heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.”