Reference: World
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The earth on which we dwell, 1Sa 2:8; its inhabitants, Joh 3:16, or a large number of them, Joh 12:19. In several places it is equivalent to "land," meaning the Roman Empire, or Judea and its vicinity, Lu 2:1; 4:3; Ac 11:28. It also denotes the objects and interests of time and sense, Ga 6:14; 1Jo 2:15.
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Then she let them down by a cord through the window, for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.
Now it came to pass in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to enroll all the world.
And the devil said to him, If thou are the Son of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Do ye see that ye accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.
And one of them named Agabus, after standing up, signified by the Spirit there was going be a great famine in the whole world, which also happened under Claudius Caesar.
But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel passed over on dry ground until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.
and he will judge the world in righteousness. He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness.
from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
The earth is LORD's, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell therein.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.
before LORD, for he comes. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.
before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
And I will punish the world for the evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Come near, ye nations, to hear. And hearken, ye peoples. Let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof, the world, and all things that come forth from it.
Ye are the light of the world. A city setting on a hill cannot be hid,
And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in the present age, nor in the one that is coming.
And that which was sown in the thorns, this is he who hears the word, and the care of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of evil. And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are heavenly agents. read more. As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned in fire, so it will be at the end of this age.
So it will be at the end of the age. The heavenly agents will come forth, and separate the bad from among the righteous,
For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what is the sign of thy coming, and of the termination of the age?
for then there will be great tribulation, such as not has happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor, no, it will not happen.
Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Truly I say to you, wherever this good-news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be told for a memorial of her.
teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, and the cravings about other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
but he will receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands--with persecutions--and in the coming age, eternal life.
just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?
And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.
who will, no, not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life.
And having answered, Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
He was the TRUE light coming into the world that enlightens every man.
He was the TRUE light coming into the world that enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not.
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not.
On the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the wedding.
And having made a whip from cords, he drove all out from the temple, both the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and turned over their tables. And he said to those who sell the doves, Take these things from here. Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. read more. And his disciples remembered that it is written, Zeal for thy house will consume me.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will, no, not thirst into the age. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
And they said to the woman, We no longer believe because of thy speaking, for we have heard ourselves, and know that this really is the Savior of the world, the Christ.
For a heavenly agent went down at a certain time into the pool, and agitated the water. Therefore the first man who stepped in after the agitation of the water became well from whatever affliction he had. And a certain man was there who was thirty-eight years in the weakness.
Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, the Son also does these things in like manner.
For the bread of God is he who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.
I am the living bread, having come down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread, he will live into the age. And also, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
For no man does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be in public. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.
And he said to them, Ye are from below, I am from above. Ye are of this world, I am not of this world.
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
From the age, it was not heard that any man opened the eyes of a man who was born blind.
And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, so that those not seeing might see, and those who see might become blind.
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Do ye see that ye accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.
Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness. And if any man hears my sayings, and will not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not so that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
And if any man hears my sayings, and will not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not so that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, having seen that his hour has come that he would depart out of this world to his Father, having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the end.
the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it does not see nor know it. But ye know it, because it dwells with you, and will be in you.
I will no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of the world comes. And he has nothing on me,
I will no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of the world comes. And he has nothing on me,
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own, but because ye are not of the world (instead I chose you out of the world), because of this the world hates you.
and about judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged.
and about judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged.
Truly, truly, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. Ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become into joy.
I manifested thy name to the men whom thou gave me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gave them to me, and they have kept thy word.
Because the sayings that thou gave to me, I gave to them. And they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou sent me.
I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.
They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.
although he did not leave himself without evidence, doing good and giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts of food and gladness.
Known to God from the age are all his works.
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,
Truly, I first express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.
Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.
And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful. And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,
But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.
which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.
Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,
For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside? But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.
Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?
and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.
But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife. And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s
Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.
For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.
But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.
But when we are judged by Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.
But when we are judged by Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.
in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.
How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,
(for he who was working in Peter for the apostleship for men of circumcision was also working in me for the Gentiles),
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
And so when we were children, we were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.
but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?
But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
far above every principle office, and position of authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is coming.
in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.
So that in the coming ages he might show the transcending wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
the man who also made clear to us your love in Spirit.
Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light.
Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother who is of you. They will make known to you all things here.
Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.
Truly to the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.
whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages.
Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had good-news did not enter because of disobedience,
and who tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,
since it would be necessary for him to suffer often, from the foundation of the world. But now once, at the end of the ages, he was made known for an annulment of sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body.
By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God. For the things that are seen do not come to be from that which is visible.
And all these, having been well reported through faith, did not receive the promise, God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.
Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?
But some man will say, Thou have faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith from thy works, and I will show thee from my works my faith.
Thou see that faith was working with his works, and from the works, faith was fully perfected.
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
And the seventh agent sounded, and great voices occurred in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will reign into the ages of the ages.
And they sing the song of Moses the bondman of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, righteous and TRUE are thy ways, thou King of the nations.