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.

when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown in the ground, though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the world,

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.

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them.

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

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.

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.

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

for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life??hese do not come from the Father, but from the world;

for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world.

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.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

I did come from the Father and enter the world. Now I am leaving the world again and going back to the Father."

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are.

They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Just as you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

The first animal was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man's, and the fourth was like an eagle flying.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.

The animal I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave it his own power and his throne and great authority.

In appearance the locusts were like war-horses armed for battle; on their heads were what appeared to be crowns like gold; their faces were like human faces;

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

"Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

These men, like unreasoning animals, mere creatures of instinct created to be caught and killed, abuse what they do not understand and will be destroyed like animals,

But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day.

For "All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And the flower fades,

Then I saw another animal come up out of the land. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.

And I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of great waters, and loud peals of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

in all the glory of God. It shone with a radiance like that of some very precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal.

his feet were like bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the noise of mighty waters.

"To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: " 'The Son of God, whose eyes blaze like fire, and whose feet are like bronze, speaks thus:

In front of the throne was what looked like a sea of glass, like crystal. Around the throne, in the middle of each side, were four animals covered with eyes in front and behind.

they had hair like a woman's; their teeth were like those of lions;

their breasts were like iron breast-plates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of a great number of chariots and horses rushing into battle.

Then I saw another mighty angel descend from heaven. He was clothed in a cloud, and a rainbow encircled his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire,