'World' in the Bible

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

You are the light of the world. A city located on top of a hill cannot be hidden,

And what was sown into the thorn plants--this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of this world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word and it becomes unproductive.

and the field is the world. And the good seed--these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one.

For what will a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?

Woe to the world because of causes for stumbling, for [it is] a necessity [that] causes for stumbling come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause for stumbling comes.

And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that in the renewal [of the world], when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me--you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will happen.

Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, [you] who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her."

and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other [things] come in [and] choke the word and it becomes unproductive.

For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.

And he said to them, "Go into all the world [and] preach the gospel to all creation.

And he led him up [and] showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

For what is a person benefited [if he] gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

For all the nations of the world seek after these [things], and your Father knows that you need these [things].

The true light, who gives light to every person, was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him.

On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of {what you said} do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!"

Now [when] the people saw the sign that he performed, they began to say, "This one is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live {forever}. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

For no one does anything in secret and [yet] he himself desires to be {publicly recognized}. If you are doing these [things], reveal yourself to the world!"

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

And he said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

I have many [things] to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and [the things] which I heard from him, these [things] I say to the world."

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

And Jesus said,]] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!"

do you say about [he] whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

Jesus replied, Are [there] not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world."

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him."

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.

Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out!

I have come [as] a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness.

And if anyone hears my words and does not observe [them], I will not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, [and] having loved [his] own in the world, loved them to the end.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know [him]. You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

Yet a little [time] and the world will see me no longer, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, why is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you--not as the world gives, I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let [them] be afraid.

I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has {no power} {over} me.

But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father has commanded me, thus I am doing. Get up, let us go from here!

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.

And [when he] comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

Truly, truly I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will change to joy.

A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

I have gone out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

And now, Father, you glorify me {at your side} with the glory that I had {at your side} before the world existed.

"I have revealed your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.

I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,

And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we [are].

And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these [things] in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves.

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

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one.

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

Just as you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

that they all may be one, just as you, Father, [are] in me and I [am] in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.

I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

"Father, [those] whom you have given to me--I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these [men] have come to know that you sent me.

Jesus replied to him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple [courts] where all the Jews assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.

Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here."

Then Pilate said to him, "So then you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this [reason] I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

Now there are also many other [things] that Jesus did, which--if they were written down one after the other--I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

And [when they] did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, "These [people] who have stirred up trouble [throughout] the world have come here also,

the God who made the world and all the things in it. This one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man who he has appointed, having provided proof to everyone [by] raising him from the dead."

So not only is there a danger this line of business of ours [will] come into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis [will] be regarded as nothing--and [she] is about to be brought down even from her grandeur, [she] whom the whole [of] Asia and the [entire] world worship!"

First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.

For from the creation of the world, his invisible [attributes], both his eternal power and deity, are discerned clearly, being understood in the things created, so that they are without excuse.

May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, [that] he would be heir of the world, [was] not through the law, but through the righteousness by faith.

Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one's account [when there] is no law.

But I say, they have not heard, have they? On the contrary, "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world."

And if their trespass [means] riches for the world and their loss [means] riches for the Gentiles, how much more [will] their fullness [mean]?

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

Where [is] the wise person? Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,

and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are,

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness,"

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all [things] [are] yours,

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

By no means [did I mean] the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts?