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.

being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

And I saw three impure spirits like frogs [proceed] from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet;??14 for [these] are spirits of demons that perform miracles, that go to the kings of all the world, to assemble them for the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not.

For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

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.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them.

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.

There is now a judgment of this world; the ruler of this world shall now be cast out;

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.

I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; again I leave the world and go to the Father.

These things have I told you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we also are.

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

As thou hast 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 had been of this world my officers would have fought for me, that I should not be given up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not here.

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

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,

not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.

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 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.

If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

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.

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 spared not the old world, but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly,

for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith.

And the first cherub was like a lion, and the second cherub like a bullock, and the third cherub had the face of a man, and the fourth cherub was like a flying eagle.

And the forms of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle, and upon their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men,

And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet 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.

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

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].