'Of the World' in the Bible

The devil took him up again and led him into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and all the glory of them;

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill, cannot be hid,

The queen of the south shall rise at the day of judgment with this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the world, to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

to fulfill that which was spoken by the prophet saying, "I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world."

And the enemy that soweth them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers be the angels.

So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out and sever the bad from the good,

And as he sat upon the mount Olivet, his disciples came unto him secretly, saying, "Tell us, when these things shall be: and what sign shall be of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall be.

And he shall send his angels with the great voice of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, and from the one end of the world to the other.

Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed children of my father, inherit ye the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world.

teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even until the end of the world."

And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, and from the one end of the world to the other.

And the devil took him up into a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, even in the twinkling of an eye.

The queen of the south shall rise at the judgment, with the men of this generation, and condemn them. For she came from the end of the world, to hear the wisdom of Solomon: and behold a greater than Solomon is here.

That the blood of all prophets, which was shed from the beginning of the world, may be required of this generation,

for all such things the heathen people of the world seek for. Your father knoweth that ye have need of such things.

The next day, John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, "Behold, the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

and said unto the woman, "Now we believe not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is even indeed Christ, the saviour of the world."

I am that living bread, which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He that followeth 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."

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. Howbeit, because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore hateth you the world.

"I have declared thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy sayings.

I have given them thy words, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I desire not that thou shouldest take them out of the world: but that thou keep them from evil.

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

"Father, I will that they, which thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me. For thou lovedest me before the making of the world.

For so hath the Lord commanded us, 'I have made thee a light to the gentiles, that thou be salvation unto the end of the world.'"

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

So that his invisible things, that is to say, his eternal power and godhead, are understood and seen by the works from the creation of the world. So that they are without excuse,

For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law: but through the righteousness which cometh of faith.

But I ask, Have they not heard? No doubt, their sound went out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world.

Wherefore, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the gentiles, how much more should it be so if they all believed?

For if the casting away of them, be the reconciling of the world: what shall the receiving of them be, but life again from death?

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound things which are mighty.

And vile things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things of no reputation, for to bring to nought things of reputation,

which wisdom none of the rulers of the world knew. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

And we have not received the spirit of the world: but the spirit which cometh of God, for to know the things that are given to us of God,

We are evil spoken of, and we pray. We are made as it were the filthiness of the world, the offscouring of all things, even unto this time.

And I meant not at all of the fornicators of this world, either of the covetous, or of extortioners, either of the idolaters - for then must ye needs have gone out of the world -

but he that hath married, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is difference between a virgin and a wife. The single woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be pure both in body and also in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

All these things happened upon them for examples, and were written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon.

Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world:

according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.

and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, which made all things through Jesus Christ,

Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

and have tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come;

for then must he have often suffered since the world began: But now in the end of the world, hath he appeared once, to put sin to flight, by the offering up of himself.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord, and of the saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning.

For all that is in the world - as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of goods - are not of the father: but of the world.

He, then, that hath the substance of the world, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him?

They be of the world, and therefore speak they of the world, and the world attendeth unto them.

And we have seen and do testify that the father hath sent his son, which is the saviour of the world.

and all that dwell upon the earth worshipped him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb, which was killed from the beginning of the world.

The beast that thou seest, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder - whose names are not written in the book of life from he beginning of the world - when they behold the beast that was, and is not.