were of the world.

Luke 6:32
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

1 John 4:4, 5
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. . . .

because.

John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will remain--so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

John 17:14-16
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. . . .

Ephesians 1:4-11
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love . . .

Ephesians 2:2-5
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. . . .

Titus 3:3-7
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. . . .

1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. . . .

1 Peter 4:3
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the pagans: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

1 John 5:19, 20
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one. . . .

Revelation 12:9, 17
And the great dragon was hurled down--the ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. . . .

Revelation 20:7-9
When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison, . . .