164 occurrences

'World' in the Bible

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world."

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

For all the nations of the world pursue these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

"Lord," Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

"I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

Jesus replied, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here."

Then Pilate said, "So you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world -- to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

The man replied, "How in the world can I, unless someone guides me?" So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world. (This took place during the reign of Claudius.)

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, "These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing, and she whom all the province of Asia and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness."

For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
αἰώνιος 
Aionios 
Usage: 47

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

חלד 
Cheled 
age , world , time
Usage: 5

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

תּבל 
Tebel 
Usage: 36

αἰών 
Aion 
Usage: 101

γῆ 
Ge 
Usage: 186

κοσμικός 
Kosmikos 
Usage: 2

κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109

οἰκουμένη 
Oikoumene 
Usage: 12

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