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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.
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The Inevitable Divide
Commentators agree that Jesus describes a fundamental conflict. The "world" operates on principles of sin and self-interest, loving those who are like it. Because Christ has chosen believers and given them a new nature, they no longer fit in. This separation is the direct cause of the world's hostility; it's a natural reaction to a believer's different identity and values.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If you were of the world. If you were motivated by the principles of the world. If, like them, you were vain, earthly, sensual, given to p…
The world would love its own (ο κοσμος αν το ιδιον εφιλε). Conclusion of secondclass condition (determined as unfulfilled), regula…
19th Century
Anglican
If you were of the world, the world would love its own.—The force of the expression indicates the utter selfishness of th…
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Baptist
You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: t…
Jesus’ choice of the disciples has set them apart for a different kind of life and for a different purpose. Therefore, the world will exclude them.…
16th Century
Protestant
If you were of the world. This is another consolation, that the reason why they are hated by the world is that they have been sep…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you were of the world Belonged to the world, were of the same spirit and principles with it, and pursued the same…
How little do many people think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the on…
13th Century
Catholic
1. After presenting the image of the vine and the branches and explaining how the branches are united to the vine, our Lord now explains the…
