We know that we are children of God — By the witness and the fruit of his Spirit, 1 John 3:24. But the whole world — All who have not his Spirit, not only is "touched" by him, but by idolatry, fraud, violence lasciviousness, impiety, all manner of wickedness. Lieth in the wicked one — Void of life, void of sense. In this short expression the horrible state of the world is painted in the most lively colours; a comment on which we have in the actions, conversations, contracts, quarrels, and friendships of worldly men.
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1 John 5:19
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.