Be in the world, not of the world

[CyrilSebastian]

The Gospel According to Saint John Chapter 17 Verses 14-16   
 
I gave them your world, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world.   
I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one.   
They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

[CyrilSebastian]

The Book of Romans Chapter 12 Verse 2     
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.     
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.

[CyrilSebastian]

The Book of Ephesians Chapter 4 Verses 7-8   
Thus I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk,   
in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God,   
because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart

[CyrilSebastian]

The Book of Colossians Chapter 3 Verse 2   
Set your affections on things above, not on things on earth.

[CyrilSebastian]

The Book of First Peter Chapter 2 Verse 9   
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession,   
that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.