Concerning the works of men, by the Words of Your lips, I have kept from the paths of the destroyer.

So the master commended the unjust steward because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this world are more prudent in their generation than the sons of light.

He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.

Then Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I bear witness of it that its works are evil.

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.

Remember the Word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My Word, they will keep yours also.

I have given them Your Word; and the world hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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

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.

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deception;

turn away from the path, thrust aside from the way, desist from the Holy One of Israel from before us.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do in the end?

For thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your fortune-tellers in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you dream.

If a man walks with a spirit of deception and lies saying, I will prophesy to you for wine and for strong drink, he shall even be a prophet for this people.

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 given them Your Word; and the world hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, desiring to hear pleasant things, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

And many will follow their destructive ways, through whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.