It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;

For those will be times of suffering the like of which has never been from the first creation of God's world until now, and assuredly never will be again;

I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?

So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.

"You," He continued, "are from below, I am from above: you are of this present world, I am not of this present world.

When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

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

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

"My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin."

Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out.

And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame;

not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether.

Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon the world? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters?

and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as

You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

And He did not spare the ancient world, although He preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a deluge on the world of the ungodly.

For the things in the world--the cravings of the earthly nature, the cravings of the eyes, the show and pride of life--they all come, not from the Father, but from the world.

For every child of God overcomes the world; and the victorious principle which has overcome the world is our faith.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.