Joh 15:19, 17:16 | ESV | STEP | If you were of the world , the world would love you as its own ; but because you are not of the world , but I chose you out of the world , therefore the world hates you .

b ch. 17:14, 16; [Luke 6:26; Gal. 1:4; James 4:4]

John 15:19

19 ^aIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^byou are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 17:16

16 ^cThey are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.