Phil. 2:15 with John 8:12; 1:4–5). “The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him” (1 John 3:1b). James also sees a stark choice to be made: “friendship with the world is enmity with God” (Jas. 4:4). Paul, characteristically, uses the most striking imagery to describe this dichotomy: by “the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ … the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14; Rom. 6:6–11). If the devil has so turned the world against God, this state of affairs