not of this world
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19If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
36Jesus responded: “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my ministers would certainly strive so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not now from here.”
15Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
15Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.
14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, am not of the world.
2Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.
16They are not of the world, just as I also am not of the world.
23And he said to them: “You are from below. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
4You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.
19We know that we are of God, and that the entire world is established in wickedness.
12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the directors of this world of darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in high places.
20But our way of life is in heaven. And from heaven, too, we await the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, 21who will transform the body of our lowliness, according to the form of the body of his glory, by means of that power by which he is even able to subject all things to himself.
18If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you. 19If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.