"In time past ye walked according to the course of this world." (Eph. ii. 2.)
"Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world." (2 Tim. iv. 10.)
(b) Let us hear what St. James says:—
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James i. 27.)
"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." (James iv. 4.)
(c) Let us hear what St. John says:—
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
"And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." (1 John ii. 15—17.)
"The world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not." (1 John iii. 1.)