Bible Cross References
were of the world
Luke 6:32
"If you love only the people who love you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners love those who love them!
1 John 4:4
But you belong to God, my children, and have defeated the false prophets, because the Spirit who is in you is more powerful than the spirit in those who belong to the world.
1 John 4:5
Those false prophets speak about matters of the world, and the world listens to them because they belong to the world.
because
John 15:16
You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.
John 17:14-16
14
I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
15
I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but I do ask you to keep them safe from the Evil One.
16
Just as I do not belong to the world, they do not belong to the world.
Ephesians 1:4-11
4
Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him. Because of his love
5
God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children---this was his pleasure and purpose.
6
Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son!
7
For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the grace of God,
8
which he gave to us in such large measure! In all his wisdom and insight
9
God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ.
10
This plan, which God will complete when the time is right, is to bring all creation together, everything in heaven and on earth, with Christ as head.
11
All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.
Ephesians 2:2-5
2
At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God.
3
Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.
4
But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great,
5
that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.
Titus 3:3-7
3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.
4
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was revealed,
5
he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us.
6
God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7
so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for.
1 Peter 2:9-12
9
But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.
10
At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.
11
I appeal to you, my friends, as strangers and refugees in this world! Do not give in to bodily passions, which are always at war against the soul.
12
Your conduct among the heathen should be so good that when they accuse you of being evildoers, they will have to recognize your good deeds and so praise God on the Day of his coming.
1 Peter 4:3
You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.
1 John 3:12
We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.
1 John 5:19
We know that we belong to God even though the whole world is under the rule of the Evil One.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God---in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.
Revelation 12:9
The huge dragon was thrown out---that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.
Revelation 12:17
The dragon was furious with the woman and went off to fight against the rest of her descendants, all those who obey God's commandments and are faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus.
Revelation 20:7-9
7
After the thousand years are over, Satan will be set loose from his prison,
8
and he will go out to deceive the nations scattered over the whole world, that is, Gog and Magog. Satan will bring them all together for battle, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore.
9
They spread out over the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people and the city that he loves. But fire came down from heaven and destroyed them.