'Of the World' in the Bible

Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,

Ye are the light of the world: a city situated on the top of a mountain cannot be hid.

for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be;

that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

and they said to the woman, It is no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world comes, and in me he has nothing;

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.

They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

Father, as to those whom thou hast given me, I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

For it was not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by righteousness of faith.

Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now.

not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.

but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

since he had then been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by his sacrifice.

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

They are of the world; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.

And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son as Saviour of the world.

And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet: and there were great voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world of our Lord and of his Christ is come, and he shall reign to the ages of ages.

and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.

The beast which thou sawest was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go into destruction: and they who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written from the founding of the world in the book of life, shall wonder, seeing the beast, that it was, and is not, and shall be present.