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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And she will let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the wall side and she will dwell upon the wall.
Raising up the weak from the dust, he will raise up the needy from the dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he will cause them to inherit a throne of glory, for to Jehovah the castings of the earth, and he will put the habitable globe upon them.
And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled.
And the devil said to him, If thou art the Son of God, say thou to this stone that it might be bread.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.
Then said the Pharisees among themselves, Ye see that ye aid nothing; behold, the world has departed after him.
And one of them having risen, Agabus by name, signified by the Holy Spirit a great famine was about to be upon the whole habitable globe: which was during Claudius Caesar.
And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
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WORLD
1. In OT.
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In the beginning God formed the heavens and the earth.
And the priests lifting up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah will stand firm upon the dry land that in the midst of Jordan, and all Israel passing over upon the dry till all the peoples finished to pass over Jordan.
And he will judge the habitable globe in justice, he will judge peoples in uprightness.
From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.
To David chanting. To Jehovah the earth and its fulness, the habitable globe and they dwelling in it.
To the overseer, to the sons of Korah: chanting. Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the World:
If I shall hunger I shall not say to thee; for to me the habitable globe, and its fulness.
Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches.
To thee the heavens, also to thee the earth; the habitable globe and its fulness thou didst found them.
Before the mountains were born, and the earth shall be begun, and the habitable globe, and from forever even to forever, thou art God.
Before the face of Jehovah; for he came, for he came to judge the earth: he will judge the habitable globe in justice, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Before Jehovah; for he came to judge the earth: he will judge the habitable globe in justice, and the peoples in uprightness
He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.
And I appointed evil over the habitable globe, and upon the unjust their iniquity; and I caused to cease the pride of the arrogant, and I will humble the pride of the terrible.
Draw near, ye nations, to hear; and ye people, attend: the earth shall hear, and its fulness; the habitable globe, and all its offspring.
Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain.
And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be let go to him, neither in this time, nor that about to be.
And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.
And the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers. read more. As therefore the tares are gathered together and burnt in fire; so shall it be in the end of this time.
So shall it be in the end of time; the messengers shall come forth, and separate the evil from the midst of the just,
For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
And sitting upon the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him apart, saying, Say to us when these shall be, and what the sign of thy arrival, and the termination of the time.
For then shall be great pressure, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor should be.
Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Truly I say to you, Wheresoever this good news be proclaimed in the whole world, shall it also be spoken what she did, for a remembrance of her.
Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.
And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and injure his soul
Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.
As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, from forever:
For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?
And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation.
Who should not receive many fold in this time, and in life coming, eternal life.
And Jesus having answered, said to them, The sons of this life marry, and are given in marriage And they having been deemed worthy to obtain that life, and the rising up of the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
The Light was true, which enlightens every man coming into the world.
The Light was true, which enlightens every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was by him, and the world knew him not.
He was in the world, and the world was by him, and the world knew him not.
In the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, be taking away the sin of the world.
And Jesus was also called, and his disciples, to the wedding.
And having made a scourge of ropes, he cast all out of the temple, also sheep, and oxen; and poured out the small coin of money-changers, and overturned the tables; And he said to those selling doves, Take away these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise. read more. And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thine house has eaten me up.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life. For God sent not his Son into the world that he judge the world; but that the world might be saved through him.
For God sent not his Son into the world that he judge the world; but that the world might be saved through him.
And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.
But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life.
And they said to the woman, That we no more believe for thy speaking: for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is truly Christ, the Saviour of the world.
For a messenger at a time went down into the pool, and troubled the water: then he having first stepped in after the troubling of the water became healthy, by whatever malady a long while since he was laid. And a certain man was there, being in weakness thirty-eight years.
Then answered Jesus and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can of himself do nothing, except what he sees the Father doing: for whatever he should do, also these does the Son likewise.
for the bread of God is he coming down from heaven, and giving life to the world.
I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.
For none does any thing in secret, and seeks himself to be in freedom of speech. If thou do these, make thyself manifest to the world.
The world cannot hate you: but me it hates, for I testify of it, that its works are evil.
Again therefore Jesus spake to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he following me shall not walk in darkness, but shall 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.
While I be in the world, I am the light of the world.
From forever was it not heard that any opened the eyes of him born blind.
And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they not seeing might see; and they seeing might be blind.
Then said the Pharisees among themselves, Ye see that ye aid nothing; behold, the world has departed after him.
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the ruler of this world be cast out.
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the ruler of this world be cast out.
I have come a light into the world, that every one believing in me should not remain in darkness. And if any hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
And if any hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
And before the feast of the pascha, Jesus knowing that his hour had come that he should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the end.
The Spirit of truth; which the world cannot receive, for it sees it not, neither knows: and ye know it; for it shall remain with you, and shall be in you.
I will no more speak much with you: for the ruler of this world comes, and has nothing in me.
I will no more speak much with you: for the ruler of this world comes, and has nothing in me.
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me the first of you.
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me the first of you. If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
And of judgment, for the ruler of this world has been judged.
And of judgment, for the ruler of this world has been judged.
Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy.
I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.
For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me.
I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
And surely indeed he left not himself without witness, doing good, having given us rain from heaven, and fruitful times, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
God having made the world and all things in it, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made by hands;
First, I return thanks to my God by Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is announced in the whole world.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:
Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:
And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.
Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.
But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:
But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:
Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.
Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.
For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within And them without God judges. And take ye away evil from yourselves.
Know ye not that the holy ones shall judge the world? and if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments?
And they using this world, as not using; for the form of this world passes away.
And he married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife. The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.
For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God.
And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.
And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.
In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.
For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.
Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:
(For be having been energetic in Peter for the mission of circumcision, was energetic also in me for the nations:)
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
So also we, when we were children, were subjugated under the world's elements:
And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition
And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be:
In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience:
That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.
He also having manifested to us your love in the Spirit.
Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light:
Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:
With Onesimus, the faithful and dearly beloved brother, who is of you. They shall make known to you all the thing here.
And to the King of times, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, honour and glory for the times of times. Amen.)
All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;
At these last days spake to us in the Son, whom he set heir of all things, by whom also he made the times;
Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:
And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be,
(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.
Wherefore coming into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering then wouldest not, but a body hast thou adjusted to me:
By faith we perceive that the times were adjusted by the word of God, so that things seen have been born not of things brought to light.
And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise: God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.
Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?
But certain will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith from my works.
Thou seest that faith cooperated with his works, and from works was faith perfected.
Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.
(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.
Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.
And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy.