'Of the World' in the Bible

Again, the Devil taketh him m an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;

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

And what was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation [of the world]."

the enemy that sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.

As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the world.

So will it be at the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

And as he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? and what will be the signs of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

For there will then be great distress, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor shall ever be.

Then will the king say to those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

teaching them to observe all things, whatever I have commanded you. And, lo! I am with you always, unto the end of the world.

but the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And taking him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

The next day he seeth Jesus coming to him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world!

and said to the woman, No longer do we believe on account of what thou hast told us; for we have ourselves heard him, and know that this is in truth the Saviour of the world.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eat of my bread, he will live for ever. Yea, and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.]

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

I shall not talk much more with you. For the prince of the world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

I manifested 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 hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil.

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

Father! as to that which thou hast given me, I desire that they also be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.

For not through the Law was the promise made to Abraham or his offspring that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

But I say, Did they not hear? Yes truly, "Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

But if their offence is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the gentiles, how much more will their fullness be?

For if the rejection of them is the reconciliation of the world, what will the reception of them be, but life from the dead?

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;

and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.

but he that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin; the unmarried woman careth about the things of the Lord, to be holy, both in body and in spirit; but she that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

For sorrow before God worketh repentance to salvation never to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

So also we, when we were children, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world;

according as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him;

Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as,

For we who believed enter into the rest, as he hath said: "So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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

for then must he have suffered many times since the foundation of the world; but now once in the end of the world he hath appeared, to put away sin by means of his sacrifice.

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore chooseth to be a friend of the world, becometh an enemy of God.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you,

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is worse with them than the first.

because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world, and the world heareth them.

And we have seen and bear witness, that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

And the seventh angel sounded, and there followed loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.

And all who dwell on the earth wilt worship him, every one whose name hath not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.

The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and is to come up out of the abyss, and goeth into perdition; and they that dwell on the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder, when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and yet will come.