1 John 4:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • John 8:23 : 23 And he said to them, You are from beneath; 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, even as I am not of the world.
  • John 17:16 : 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
  • John 3:31 : 31 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.
  • John 7:6-7 : 6 Then 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 of it that its works are evil.
  • John 15:19-20 : 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word I said to you, 'The servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
  • Ps 17:4 : 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.
  • Isa 30:10-11 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners, who are among you, deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And the master commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
  • 2 Pet 2:2-3 : 2 And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
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    84%

    6 We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

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

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

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

    4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

  • John 8:47
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    47 He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.

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

    17 Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.

  • John 17:14
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    14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, 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 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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

    17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

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

    19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

  • 1 John 5:19
    72%

    19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

  • 1 John 2:19
    72%

    19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

  • John 8:43
    72%

    43 Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13 By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

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

  • 1 John 3:1
    71%

    1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

  • 1 John 5:4-5
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    4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

    5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

  • 1 John 4:17
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    17 In this love has been perfected among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world.

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

  • John 3:31
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    31 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.

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

    13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

    14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • John 7:7
    70%

    7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    70%

    4 Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • Eph 5:7
    69%

    7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

  • Jude 1:19
    69%

    19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, having not the Spirit.

  • John 8:26
    69%

    26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you: but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him.

  • 1 John 3:13
    69%

    13 Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    69%

    21 In the law it is written: With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 14:10
    69%

    10 There are, perhaps, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance.

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5 You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

  • Matt 13:13
    69%

    13 This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

  • John 16:11
    69%

    11 Of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

  • 2 Tim 4:4
    69%

    4 And they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.

  • John 14:30
    69%

    30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me.

  • John 10:4
    69%

    4 And when he has sent out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

  • Mark 4:17-18
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    17 and have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when affliction or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

    18 And these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word,

  • 1 Cor 7:31
    69%

    31 and those who use this world, as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.

  • John 10:27
    69%

    27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

  • John 3:11
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    11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you do not receive our witness.

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