This Present Evil World

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“In time past ‘ye walked according to the course of this’ world.”—Ephesians 2: 2.
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom (whereby) the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”—Galatians 6: 14.
“He was in the world..... and the world knew him not.”—John 1:10.
“The world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”—1 John 3:1.
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”—John 17:16.
“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.”—John 17:15.
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this ... ..to keep himself unspotted from the world.”—James 1:27. “As long as 1 am in the world, I am the light of the world.”—John 9:5.
“Ye are the light of the world.”—Matthew 5:14.
“The sons of God ... . in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine—as lights in the world.”—Philippians 2: 15.
“Marvel not ... ..if the world hate you.”—1 John 3:13.
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.”—John 15:18.
“Be not conformed to this world.”—Romans 12:2. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.”—1 John 2:15.
“If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”—1 John 2:15.
“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.”—1 John 2:16.
“The world passeth away, and the lust thereof.”—1 John 2:17.
“Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?”—James 4: 4.
“Whosoever ... . will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.”—James 4: 4.
“Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.”—Titus 2:12,13.
(Continued from vol. 2)