1 John 4:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.

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  • John 8:23 : 23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
  • John 17:14 : 14 I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • John 17:16 : 16 They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;
  • John 3:31 : 31 He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.
  • John 7:6-7 : 6 Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you. 7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
  • John 15:19-20 : 19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world. 20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.
  • Ps 17:4 : 4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
  • Isa 30:10-11 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure: 11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
  • 2 Pet 2:2-3 : 2 And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name. 3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

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    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

  • 1 John 4:1-4
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    1 My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

    2 By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

    3 And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

    4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

  • John 8:47
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    47 He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

  • John 17:16-17
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    16 They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

    17 Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

  • John 17:14
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    14 I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  • 1 John 2:15-17
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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

    17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

  • John 15:18-19
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    18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

    19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

  • 1 John 5:19
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    19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

  • 1 John 2:19
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    19 They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

  • John 8:43
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    43 Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • John 8:23
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    23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • 1 John 5:4-5
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    4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

    5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

  • 1 John 4:17
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    17 In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

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    17 Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you.

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    31 He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

  • 1 Cor 2:12-14
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    12 But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.

    13 And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

    14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

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    7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 Have no part with such men;

  • Jude 1:19
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    19 These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

  • John 8:26
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    26 I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

  • 1 John 3:13
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    13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 14:10
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    10 There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

  • Matt 13:13
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    13 For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

  • John 16:11
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    11 Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

  • John 5:38
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    38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

  • 2 Tim 4:4
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    4 And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

  • John 14:30
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    30 After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

  • John 10:4
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    4 When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

  • Mark 4:17-18
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    17 And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.

    18 And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word,

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31 And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.

  • John 10:27
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    27 My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:

  • John 3:11
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    11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.