19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen(A) you out of it, the world hates you.

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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(A) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(B)

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16 They are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.(A)

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16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.(A)

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Do not be conformed(A) to this age,(B) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,(C) so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will(D) of God.

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Do not conform(A) to the pattern of this world,(B) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.(C) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is(D)—his good, pleasing(E) and perfect will.

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27 Pure and undefiled religion before our[a] God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows(A) in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.(B)

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  1. James 1:27 Or before the

27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after(A) orphans and widows(B) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.(C)

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Adulteresses![a][b] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.(A)

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  1. James 4:4 Other mss read Adulterers and adulteresses
  2. James 4:4 Or Unfaithful people!

You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D)

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  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.