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”?