📝 In the world not of the world
This study lists scriptures that define an abomination to the LORD.
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🎓 Instruction
1 John 3:1
- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Hated by the world
In the world not of the world
John 17:11
- And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:14-20
- I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
- They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
- As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
- If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
- Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Matthew 10:22
- And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:32-36
- Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
- But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
- Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
- For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
- And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household.
2 Timothy 3:12
- Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
1 John 3:13
- Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
Difficult relationships and behaviour
Psalms 1:1-6
- Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
- But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
- And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
- The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
- For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Proverbs 13:20
- He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 22:24-25
- Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
- Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Matthew 18:15-17
- Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
- But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
- And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13
- I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
- Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
- But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
- For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
- But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
1 Corinthians 15:33
- Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
2 Corinthians 6:14-15
- Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
- And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
1 John 1:6-8
- If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
- But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Warning
1 Corinthians 5:6-7
- Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
James 4:4
- Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Do
Philippians 4:8-9
- Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
- Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
2 Timothy 2:15
- Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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