'Of the World' in the Bible

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.