John 17:14
New Living Translation
14 I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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John 17:16
New Living Translation
16 They do not belong to this world any more than I do.
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John 15:18-21
New Living Translation
The World’s Hatred
18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. 19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. 20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. 21 They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.
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1 John 5:19-20
New Living Translation
19 We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God.[a] And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life.
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- 5:20 Greek the one who is true.
John 8:23
New Living Translation
23 Jesus continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not.
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1 John 4:5-6
New Living Translation
5 Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. 6 But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.
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John 7:7
New Living Translation
7 The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.
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Proverbs 29:27
New Living Translation
27 The righteous despise the unjust;
the wicked despise the godly.
Zechariah 11:8
New Living Translation
8 I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month.
But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.
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1 John 3:12
New Living Translation
12 We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous.
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1 Peter 4:4-5
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4 Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you. 5 But remember that they will have to face God, who stands ready to judge everyone, both the living and the dead.
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Matthew 10:24-25
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24 “Students[a] are not greater than their teacher, and slaves are not greater than their master. 25 Students are to be like their teacher, and slaves are to be like their master. And since I, the master of the household, have been called the prince of demons,[b] the members of my household will be called by even worse names!
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Genesis 3:15
New Living Translation
15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike[a] your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
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