1 John 5:19 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁹ We realize that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the Evil One.

³¹ Now this world is on its trial. Now the Spirit that is ruling this world shall be driven out;

³⁰ I shall not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me;

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

¹¹ As to Judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

²⁸ Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things. ²⁹ They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice. ³⁰ They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents. ³¹ They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity. ³² Well aware of God's decree, that those who do such things deserve to die, not only are they guilty of them themselves, but they even applaud those who do them.

⁹ What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin. ¹⁰ As Scripture says-'There is not even one who is righteous, ¹¹ Not one who understands, not one who is searching for God! ¹² They have all gone astray; they have one and all become depraved; there is no one who is doing good-no, not one!' ¹³ 'Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.' 'The venom of serpents lies behind their lips,' ¹⁴ 'And their mouths are full of bitter curses.' ¹⁵ 'Swift are their feet to shed blood. ¹⁶ Distress and trouble dog their steps, ¹⁷ And the path of peace they do not know.' ¹⁸ 'The fear of God is not before their eyes.'

¹⁶ The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God's children,

¹² Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this--Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.

⁴ Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.

¹ For we know that if our tent--that earthly body which is now our home--is taken down, we have a house of God's building, a home not made by hands, imperishable, in Heaven.

⁴ Gave himself for our sins, in accordance with the will of God and Father,

² For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

¹² That is why I am undergoing these sufferings; yet I feel no shame, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until 'That Day.'

³ There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

⁴ Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

²⁴ And he who lays his commands to heart maintains union with Christ, and Christ with him. And by this we know that Christ maintains union with us--by our possession of the Spirit which he gave us.

⁴ You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. ⁵ Those men belong to the world; and therefore they speak as the world speaks, and the world listens to them. ⁶ We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the man who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has that testimony within him. He who does not believe God has made God a liar, by refusing to believe in that testimony which he has borne about his Son.

¹³ I write this to you, that you may realize that you have found Immortal Life--you who believe in the Name of the Son of God.

¹⁸ We know that no one who has received the new Life from God lives in sin. No, he who has received the new Life from God keeps the thought of God in his heart, and then the Evil One does not touch him.

²⁰ We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life.

⁹ Then the great Dragon, the primeval Serpent, known as the 'Devil' and 'Satan,' who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

⁷ It had been permitted to fight with Christ's People and to conquer them, and it had received power over men of every tribe, and people, and language, and nation. ⁸ All who are living on earth will worship it--all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation of the world.

³ He flung him into the bottomless pit and locked it, and set his seal upon it; that he should not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let loose for a while.

⁷ When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison, ⁸ and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in 'the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog.' He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore.