Bible Cross References
were of the world
Luke 6:32
But 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 you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:5
They are of the world: on account of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
because
John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.
John 17:14-16
14
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15
I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil [one].
16
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Ephesians 1:4-11
4
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love,
5
having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6
to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.
7
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
8
which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and insight,
9
having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,
10
for an administration of the fullness of the times, [He might] bring together all things in Christ, those in heaven and those on the earth--In Him.
11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
Ephesians 2:2-5
2
in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,
3
among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.
4
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5
even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Titus 3:3-7
3
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
4
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
5
not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
6
whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7
that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
1 Peter 2:9-12
9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's [own] possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
10
who formerly [were] not a people but now [are the] people of God, who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.
11
Beloved, I implore you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul;
12
having your manner of life noble among the Gentiles, so that, whenever they speak against you as evildoers, when they observe the good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past lifetime to accomplish the will of the Gentiles--having walked in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.
1 John 3:12
not as Cain who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil and the [works] of his brother were righteous.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies [under the sway] of the evil [one].
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true; and we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 20:7-9
7
Now after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,
8
and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is like the sand of the sea.
9
They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.