'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 splendor.

“You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.

so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:I will open My mouth in parables;I will declare things kept secretfrom the foundation of the world.

the field is the world; and the good seed—these are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes.

This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations. And then the end will come.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

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 assure you: Wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of the world, which God created, until now and never will be again!

I assure you: Wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Then He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

So he took Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself?

so that this generation may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world—

For the Gentile world eagerly seeks all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

People will faint from fear and expectation of the things that are coming on the world, because the celestial powers 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 through Him,yet the world did not recognize Him.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

“For God loved the world in this way: 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 that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was 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 of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”

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

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

“Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

“Yes, Lord,” she told Him, “I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.

If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you.

“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it You’re 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 to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful.

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.“Get up; let’s leave this place.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:

and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

“I assure you: You will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

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

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presencewith that glory I had with Youbefore the world existed.

I have revealed Your nameto the men You gave Me from the world.They were Yours, You gave them to Me,and they have kept Your word.

I pray for them.I am not praying for the worldbut for those You have given Me,because they are Yours.

I am no longer in the world,but they are in the world,and I am coming to You.Holy Father,protect them by Your namethat You have given Me,so that they may be one as We are one.

Now I am coming to You,and I speak these things in the worldso that they may have My joy completed in them.

I have given them Your word.The world hated thembecause they are not of the world,as I am not of the world.

I am not prayingthat You take them out of the worldbut that You protect them from the evil one.

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

As You sent Me into the world,I also have sent them into the world.

May they all be one,as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You.May they also be one in Us,so the world may believe You sent Me.

I am in them and You are in Me.May they be made completely one,so the world may know You have sent Meand have loved them as You have loved Me.

Righteous Father!The world has not known You.However, I have known You,and these have known that You sent Me.

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. As it is, My kingdom does not have its origin here.”

“You are a king then?” Pilate asked.“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.”

And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.

because He has set a day when He is going to judge the world in righteousness by the Man He has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

So not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin—the very one all of Asia and the world adore.”

For we have found this man to be a plague, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the Roman world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes!

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

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

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.

But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Yes, they did:Their voice has gone out to all the earth,and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.

Now if their stumbling brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come—everything is yours,

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases?

and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—