The world hates reproof:
John 3:19 -This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved
darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Its evils are expected by Christian living:
Romans 12:2 - Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test
and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to
all men.
12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly
passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present
age,
Its darkness is exposed by Christian light:
John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe
stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one
and only Son.
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but
men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come
into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
Philippians 2:15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God
without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like
stars in the universe
It is blind:
2 Corinthians 4:4 the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so
that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the
image of God.
Christians are not of it:
John 15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.
As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world. That is why the world hates you.
John 17:14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,
for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but
that you protect them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.
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