See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. … Having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. … If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.

Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules. … For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. … May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace.

Is 24:4; 1Jh 3:1; Jh 3:16-17; Ja 1:27, 2Pe 1:4, 2Pe 2:20; Co 2:20, 1Ti 6:7, Ga 6:14; 2Co 1:12

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