Verse 19

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 1:4 : 4 who gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
  • 1 John 4:4-6 : 4 You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
  • John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.
  • John 16:11 : 11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
  • John 14:30 : 30 I will not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient.
  • Rev 13:7-8 : 7 It was also given power to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation. 8 All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world.
  • Rev 20:3 : 3 He threw him into the abyss, locked it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.
  • Rev 20:7-8 : 7 When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison. 8 He will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand on the seashore.
  • 1 John 3:24 : 24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  • 1 John 5:13 : 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life, and so that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
  • 1 John 5:18 : 18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
  • Rom 1:28-32 : 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them.
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one." 11 "There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God." 12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. 13 "Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips." 14 Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Ruin and misery mark their paths. 17 And the way of peace they have not known. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
  • Rom 8:16 : 16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity, not relying on worldly wisdom but on God's grace.
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within them. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about His Son.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.