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

For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, like men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

They are of the world and therefore speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

I have given them your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

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

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage! I have overcome the world."

And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name the name you gave me that they may be one, even as we are one.

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

As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingship is not from here."

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong,

not at all meaning the immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to try trivial cases?

and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it. For the form of this world is passing away.

But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

The first living creature was like a lion, the second creature like an ox, the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.

Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; and their faces were like human faces,

The beast that I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, "If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?