Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

you from their company, and shall reproach you,
and cast out your name as 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." "But woe
unto you that are rich! for ye have received your
consolation." In the Gospel of John we again find
the words of Christ: "These things I command you,
that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye
know that it hated Me before it hated you. 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. Remember the word that I said unto
you, The servant is not greater than his Lord. If
they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute
you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep
yours also." "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
Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that
Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are
not of the world, even as I am not of the world."
In First John we read: "Love not the world,
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