If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Cross References Matthew 10:22 You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. Matthew 24:9 Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. John 6:70 Jesus answered them, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" John 13:18 I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: 'The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.' John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will remain--so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. John 17:14 I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. 1 John 4:5 They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them. Treasury of Scripture If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. were of the world. Luke 6:32 1 John 4:4,5 because. John 15:16 John 17:14-16 Ephesians 1:4-11 |