"They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them." (1 John iv. 5.)
"Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world." (1 John v. 4.)
"We know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness." (1 John v. 19.)
(d) Let us hear, lastly, what the Lord Jesus Christ says:—
"The cares of this world choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful." (Matt. xiii. 22.)
"Ye are of this world: I am not of this world." (John viii. 23.)
"The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him." (John xiv. 17.)
"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you." (John xv. 18.)
"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." (John xv. 19.)
"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." (John xvi. 33.)