Of course, we are living in the world, but we do not wage war in a world-like way.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

so that you may be blameless and innocent, God's children without any faults among a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world

This is how love has been perfected among us: we will have confidence on the day of judgment because, during our time in this world, we are just like him.

One of the beast's heads looked like it had sustained a mortal wound, but its fatal wound was healed. Rapt with amazement, the whole world followed the beast.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

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

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

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

Now is the time for the judgment of this world to begin. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

I left the Father and came into the world. Now I'm leaving the world and going back to the Father."

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your Name, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

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

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."

But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.

However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.

not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, greedy, robbers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

You know that the saints will rule the world, don't you? And if the world is going to be ruled by you, can't you handle insignificant cases?

and those who use the things in the world as though they were not dependent on them. For the world in its present form is passing away.

But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!

If you have died with the Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world?

You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

and if he did not spare the ancient world but protected Noah, a righteous preacher, along with seven others when he brought the flood on the world of ungodly people;

For everything that is in the world the desire for fleshly gratification, the desire for possessions, and worldly arrogance is not from the Father but is from the world.

because everyone who is born from God has overcome the world. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

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

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were victor's crowns that looked like gold, and their faces were like human faces.

The beast that I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like bear's feet, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave it his power, his throne, and complete authority.

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

Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a large crowd, like the sound of raging waters, and like the sound of powerful thunderclaps, saying, "Hallelujah! The Lord our God, the Almighty, is reigning.