'World' in the Bible

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set him among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them.

And the beds of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered At the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established, it shall not be moved.

He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Who hath entrusted to him the earth? and who hath disposed the whole world?

And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.

And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun,

{Of David. A Psalm.} The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Let all the earth fear Jehovah; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world:

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.

The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind, lightnings lit up the world; the earth was troubled and it quaked.

Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world and its fulness, thou hast founded them.

Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.

Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty: Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved.

Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth! yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved; he will execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.

Before Jehovah, for he cometh; for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.

His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein;

Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.

And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.

that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards?

Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye!

The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and all its fulness; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,

Ye are the light of the world: a city situated on the top of a mountain cannot be hid.

and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one;

For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!

for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be;

Verily I say to you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this woman has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.

And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to all the creation.

as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;

But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world.

And the devil, leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?

that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry and are given in marriage,

but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.

He was in the world, and the world had its being through him, and the world knew him not.

On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.

and they said to the woman, It is no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

The men therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus had done, said, This is truly the prophet which is coming into the world.

For the bread of God is he who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

for no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be known in public. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world:

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

And he said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but he that has sent me is true, and I, what I have heard from him, these things I say to the world.

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

And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.

do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of God?

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;

She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.

The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out:

I am come into the world as light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness;

and if any one hear my words and do not keep them, I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him nor know him; but ye know him, for he abides with you, and shall be in you.

Yet a little and the world sees me no longer; but ye see me; because I live ye also shall live.

Judas, not the Iscariote, says to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?

I leave peace with you; I give my peace to you: not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it fear.

I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world comes, and in me he has nothing;

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go hence.

If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.

A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.

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

These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.

and now glorify me, thou Father, along with thyself, with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

I demand concerning them; I do not demand concerning the world, but concerning those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine,