If any of those who do not believe invite you to dinner, and you desire to go, eat whatever is set before you, not questioning because of conscience.

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 beneath; 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, therefore the world hates you.

I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave 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 pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil.

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

whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.

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

Let your light so shine before men, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven.

I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil.

that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray; he was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.