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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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In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.
And the devil said to him, "If you are God's son, tell this stone to turn into bread!"
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.
So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"
and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius.
But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.
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You are the light of the world! A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.
And whoever speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit cannot be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come.
And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing.
The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked. The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. read more. So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned, this is what will happen at the close of the age;
That is what will happen at the close of the age. The angels will go out and remove the wicked from among the upright,
For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?
As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him by themselves, and said to him, "Tell us when this is to happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age."
for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again.
Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.
I tell you, wherever this good news is preached all over the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."
and teach them to observe all the commands that I have given you. I will always be with you, to the very close of the age."
but the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich and passions for other things creep in and choke the message out and it yields nothing.
For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?
but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.
"By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this??71 To save us from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us,
What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.
who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life."
Jesus said to them, "The people of this world marry and are married, but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.
The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.
The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world. He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.
He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.
Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables. And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!" read more. His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.
For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.
And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.
but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."
and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."
OMITTED TEXT There was one man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."
I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"
For no one acts in secret when he desires to be publicly known. If you are going to do these things, let the world see you."
It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.
Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."
He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.
As long as I am in the world, I am a light for the world."
It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.
And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."
So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"
The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,
The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,
I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me may have to remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.
If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.
It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you.
I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,
I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,
If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.
and about judgment, as shown by the condemnation of the evil genius of this world.
and about judgment, as shown by the condemnation of the evil genius of this world.
I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world will be happy; you will grieve, but your grief will change to happiness.
"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.
for I have given them the truths that you gave me, and they have accepted them and been convinced that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me.
I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
though he did not fail to give some evidence about himself, through his kindnesses to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and happiness to your heart's content."
God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands,
First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.
Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature??is eternal power and divine character??ave been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,
It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.
You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.
Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom?
Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom? For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.
But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with, and it was what the world calls low and insignificant and unreal that God chose to nullify its realities,
Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.
It is a wisdom unknown to any of the authorities of this world, for otherwise they would never have crucified our glorious Lord.
But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.
Let no one of you deceive himself. If any one of you imagines that he is wiser than the rest of you, in what this world calls wisdom, he had better become a fool, so as to become really wise. For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church, and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.
Do you not know that the Christians are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to come before you for judgment, are you unfit to decide the most trivial cases?
and those who mix in the world, as though they were not absorbed in it. For the present shape of the world is passing away.
A married man is concerned about worldly affairs, and how he can please his wife, and so his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.
These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax.
For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.
But if anyone is disposed to be contentious about it, I for my part recognize no other practice in worship than this, and neither do the churches of God.
But since we do incur it, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
But since we do incur it, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.
who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things,
but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?
But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.
far above all hierarchies, authorities, powers, and dominions, and all titles that can be bestowed not only in this world but in the world to come.
in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.
to show the incomparable wealth of his mercy throughout the ages to come by his goodness to us through Christ Jesus.
offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.
and it is he who has told me of the love the Spirit has awakened in you.
and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.
You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.
And with him I send my dear, faithful brother Onesimus, who is one of your own number. They will tell you all about matters here.
To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the one God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.
To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.
training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,
but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.
Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,
and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age,
for then he would have had to suffer death over and over, ever since the creation of the world. But, as it is, once for all at the close of the age he has appeared, to put an end to sin by his sacrifice.
That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me.
It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter.
Yet though they all gained God's approval by their faith, they none of them received what he had promised, for God had resolved upon something still better for us, that they might not reach the fulfilment of their hopes except with us.
Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds.
You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds,
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.
What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.
You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures. You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has passed into the possession of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever."
and they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your doings, Lord God Almighty! Upright and true are your ways, King of the Ages!