Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

James 4:4: “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 1:27: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visitthe fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from theworld.”Titus 2:12: “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we shouldlive soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.”Romans 12:2: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed bythe renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, andperfect, will of God.”John 17:14, 15, 17: “I have given them Thy word; and the world hath hated them,because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thoushouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.”“Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth.”Luke 6:22, 23: “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shallseparate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your nameas evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for,behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers untothe prophets.”John 15:16-19: “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordainedyou, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: thatwhatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you. These thingsI command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hatedMe before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: butbecause ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore theworld hateth you.”1 John 4:4, 5: “Ye are of God, little children, and have285