'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.
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.
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."
The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
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."
For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?
and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.
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."
He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
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.
People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.
On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world."
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."
For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to 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."
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
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."
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of 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."
do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
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.
She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."
Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"
The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.
Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.
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.
Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
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?"
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.
I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,
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."
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment --
and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.
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 came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."
I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."
And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
"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.
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
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.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.
They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.
Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
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,
The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,
because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead."
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.
First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.
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.
So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --
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?
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
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?
For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.
But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.
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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