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.

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

A Warning about the World

¹⁵ Do not love the world^(A) or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.