1 John 4:5

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They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

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  • John 8:23 : 23 He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
  • John 17:14 : 14 I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
  • John 17:16 : 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will gather teachers for themselves to satisfy their itching ears.
  • John 3:31 : 31 The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
  • John 7:6-7 : 6 Jesus said to them, 'My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.' 7 'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'
  • John 15:19-20 : 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. 20 Remember the word I spoke 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 also keep yours.
  • Ps 17:4 : 4 Concerning what people do, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
  • Isa 30:10-11 : 10 They say to the seers, 'See no more visions!' and to the prophets, 'Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.' 11 'Leave the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!'
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. And My people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Do not let the prophets or diviners among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that you are dreaming.
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If someone full of wind and deceit lies and says, 'I will preach to you about wine and strong drink,' that would be just the preacher for this people!
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 The master praised the dishonest manager for acting shrewdly, because the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.
  • 2 Pet 2:2-3 : 2 Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
  • 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.

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
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    6We 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.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

  • 1 John 4:1-4
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    1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

    3And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.

    4You 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.

  • John 8:47
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    47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

  • John 17:16-17
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    16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

    17Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • 1 John 2:15-17
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

    16For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

    17The world is passing away, along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

  • John 15:18-19
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    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

    19If 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.

  • 1 John 5:19
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    19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

  • 1 John 2:19
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    19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their going out showed that none of them belonged to us.

  • John 8:43
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    43Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4You 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 4:13
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    13By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

  • John 8:23
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    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • 1 John 5:4-5
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    4For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

    5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

  • 1 John 4:17
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    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

  • John 14:17
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    17The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him, you know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.

  • John 3:31
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    31The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all.

  • 1 Cor 2:12-14
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    12Now, we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

    13We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit—explaining spiritual truths to spiritual people.

    14But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

  • John 7:7
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    7'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • Eph 5:7
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    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

  • John 8:26
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    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

  • 1 John 3:13
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    13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21In the Law it is written: 'By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me,' says the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 14:10
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    10There are so many kinds of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5You are all children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

  • Matt 13:13
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    13That is why I speak to them in parables, because although they see, they do not see; and although they hear, they do not hear or understand.

  • John 16:11
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    11and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

  • John 5:38
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    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

  • 2 Tim 4:4
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    4They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.

  • John 14:30
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    30I will not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

  • John 10:4
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    4When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

  • Mark 4:17-18
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    17But they have no root in themselves; they are short-lived. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately fall away.

    18Others are like the seed sown among thorns: these are the ones who hear the word,

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31And those who use the things of this world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

  • John 10:27
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    27My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

  • John 3:11
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    11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.