And if any of the unbelievers invites you to dinner, and you desire to go, eat whatever is set before you, questioning nothing, for conscience' sake.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You have given them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for [those] whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.

I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil [one].

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

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

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,

They are of the world: on account of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; and everyone that loves has been born of God and knows God.

You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Thus let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and they may glorify your Father who is in heaven.

I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil [one].

in order that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies [under the sway] of the evil [one].

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.