John 15:19
15:19 If you belonged to the world,
the world would love you as its own.
However, because you do not belong to the world,
but I chose you out of the world, for this reason
the world hates you.
Luke 6:26
6:26 “Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.
James 4:4
4:4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
James 4:1
Passions and Pride
4:1 Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
James 4:5
4:5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,
“The spirit that God
caused
to live within us has an envious yearning”?