Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Bible References
Taking
Mark 4:8
But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."
1 Corinthians 7:31
those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
In
Job 20:5
that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Psalm 73:19
How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
1 Corinthians 15:52
in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison