1 John 4:5

World English Bible (2000)

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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  • John 8:23 : 23 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. The world 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 listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
  • John 3:31 : 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
  • John 7:6-7 : 6 Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about 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, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
  • 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 tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
  • 2 Pet 2:2-3 : 2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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    6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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

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

    2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

    3and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

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

  • John 8:47
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    47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."

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

    17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given them your word. The world 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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    15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

    17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

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

    19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

  • 1 John 5:19
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    19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

  • 1 John 2:19
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    19They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

  • John 8:43
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    43Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself 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, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • John 8:23
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    23He 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
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    1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

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

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

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

  • John 14:17
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    17the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

  • John 3:31
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    31He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

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

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

    14Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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    7The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • Eph 5:7
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    7Therefore don't be partakers with them.

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

  • John 8:26
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    26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

  • 1 John 3:13
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    13Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

  • 1 Cor 14:10
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    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

  • Matt 13:13
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    13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

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

  • John 5:38
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    38You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

  • 2 Tim 4:4
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    4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

  • John 14:30
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    30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

  • John 10:4
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    4Whenever he brings 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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    17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

    18Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

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

  • John 3:11
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    11Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.