'World' in the Bible
He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;
in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:
on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;
for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
and said to the woman -- 'No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world -- the Christ.'
The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said -- 'This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;'
for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;'
the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
and he said to them, 'Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;
many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'
when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
And Jesus said, 'For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'
of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say -- Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?
Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;
believest thou this?' she saith to him, 'Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'
the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, 'Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.'
he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;
now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;
I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;
and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I -- I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who are in the world -- to the end he loved them.
the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;
Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), 'Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?'
'Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;
I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;
but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.
if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;
if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;
and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.
verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.
'The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.
I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'
these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'
'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;
'I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,
and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;
when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.
'And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;
I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.
'Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;
as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;
that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.
I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.
'Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.
'Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,
Jesus answered him, 'I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;
Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'
Pilate, therefore, said to him, 'Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, 'Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
And there are also many other things -- as many as Jesus did -- which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.
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- Domain (8 instances)
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- Existence (51 instances)
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- Mankind (130 instances)
- Populace (6 instances)
- Public (163 instances)
- Reality (36 instances)
- Universe (25 instances)
- World (405 instances)
- Worldwide (2 instances)
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