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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In those days there went out an ordinance from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world.
And the devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.
The Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, You see that you have gained nothing; behold, the world has gone after him.
and one of them, by the name of Agabus, standing up signified by the spirit that a great famine was about to come on all the world; which also came under Claudius Caesar.
But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.
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1. In OT.
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You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid.
And if one speaks a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him; but if one speaks against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven him either in this life or in that to come.
And he that received seed among thorns is he that hears the word, and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; the poisonous darnel are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the consummation of the world; and the reapers are angels. read more. As, therefore, poisonous darnel is collected and burned with fire, so shall it be at the consummation of the world.
So shall it be at the consummation of the world. The angels shall come forth and separate the evil from the midst of the good,
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his life? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?
And as he sat on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us when these things shall be; and what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the consummation of the world?
for at that time there shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world even till now, nor ever shall be.
Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
I tell you truly, that wherever this good news is preached in all the word, what this woman has done shall be told for a memorial of her.
teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.
and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things coming in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
For what will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his life?
who shall not receive a hundred fold now at this present time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the life to come eternal life.
as he said by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old;
For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and destroys himself, or loses his life?
And the lord praised the unjust steward, because he did wisely; for the children of this life are wiser, for their generation, than the children of light.
who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the life to come eternal life.
And Jesus said to them, The children of this life marry and are married; but those who are judged worthy to attain that life, and the resurrection of the dead, neither marry nor are married;
The light was the true [light] which lights every man that comes into the world.
The light was the true [light] which lights every man that comes into the world. He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not.
He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not.
On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, 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 making a whip of cords he drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and cattle, and poured out the money of the brokers, and overturned the tables, and said to those that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. read more. And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thy house consumes me.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life. For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
And this is the judgment; that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.
but whoever drinks of the water which I will give him shall never thirst; but the water which I will give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.
and said to the woman, We no longer believe on account of your report, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.
(Added verse not retained in Sawyer) And there was a certain man there who had been sick thirty-eight years.
Then Jesus answered and said to them, I tell you most truly, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for whatever he does, these things also does the Son in like manner.
for the bread of God is he that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
for no one does any thing in secret, and seeks himself to be in public. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.
The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify of it that its works are evil.
THEN Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.
And he said to them, You are from below; I am from above; you are from this world; I am not from this world.
While I am in the world I am the light of the world.
Since the world began it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind;
And Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing become blind.
The Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, You see that you have gained nothing; behold, the world has gone after him.
There is now a judgment of this world; the ruler of this world shall now be cast out;
There is now a judgment of this world; the ruler of this world shall now be cast out;
I have come a light into the world, that no one who believes in me should continue in darkness. And if any one hears my words and keeps them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.
And if any one hears my words and keeps them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.
AND before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour had come to depart from 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, because it beholds it not nor knows it; but you know it, because it continues with you, and shall be in you.
I will not speak with you much more; for the ruler of this world comes and has nothing in me;
I will not speak with you much more; for the ruler of this world comes and has nothing in me;
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you.
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you. If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
I tell you most truly, that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall become joy.
I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gayest me out of the world; they were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.
because the words which thou hast given me I have given them; and they have received and known truly that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me.
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because 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.
although indeed he left not himself without a witness, doing good, giving rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
The God who made the world and all things in it, this [God] being Lord of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands,
First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,
Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law
and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe;
but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty, and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,
But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;
which none of the rulers of this life knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God,
Let no one deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this life, let him be a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written; He takes the wise in their craftiness.
For what business have I to judge those without? Do you not judge those within? but those without, God judges. Remove therefore the evil man from among you.
Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts?
and those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away.
but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife. And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
All these things happened to them as examples, and are recorded for our admonition on whom the ends of the ages have come;
for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.
But if any one is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.
but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.
to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their offenses, and has given to us the word of reconciliation.
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,
I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
So also we, when we were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;
but now knowing God, or rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you wish again to serve?
But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.
above every principality and authority and power and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this life but also in that to come,
that he might show in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace in goodness to us by Jesus Christ.
holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
and who made known to us your love in the Spirit.
giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in light,
Servants, obey in all things masters according to the flesh, not with eye service, as those pleasing men, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.
with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; they will tell you of all things here.
And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.
To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience are defiled.
teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,
in these last days spoke to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds,
Since then it remains that some entered into it, and those to whom it was first preached entered not in on account of unbelief,
and having tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the life to come,
since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself.
Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me.
We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.
And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by works.
You see that faith cooperated with his works, and by works was faith made perfect,
BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.
And the tongue is a fire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire by hell.
What wise and intelligent man is there among you? Let him show his works by good conduct, in the meekness of wisdom.
you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures. Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.
AND the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, the kingdom of the world has become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign forever and ever.
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, king of the nations;