'Of the World' in the Bible

"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hilltop cannot be hid;

in fulfilment of the word spoken by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world."

for then shall be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never shall be again.

"Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

"so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,

"For all these things the nations of the world are seeking; but your Father knows that you have need of these things.

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."

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

"Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of.

"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

"I have made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

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

"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.

"Says the Lord, who has been making this known from the beginning of the world.

For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse.

For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith-righteousness.

But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?

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.

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

He was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake.

For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

and each one whose name has not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who has been slain from the foundation of the world. All who dwell on the earth shall worship him.

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the bottomless pit, and to go into perdition. And those who dwell on the earth shall wonder, those whose names have never, from the foundation of the world, been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, when they gaze on the beast; how he was and is not, and is to come.