Colossians 1:21

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

and having a great priest over God’s house,

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.