'World' in the Bible

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—

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

but when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, and all have meaning.

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world.

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.

If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them.

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great:He was manifested in the flesh,vindicated in the Spirit,seen by angels,preached among the nations,believed on in the world,taken up in glory.

For we brought nothing into the world,and we can take nothing out.

for Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

When He again brings His firstborn into the world, He says, And all God’s angels must worship Him.

For He has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about.

(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:So I swore in My anger,they will not enter My rest.And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

Otherwise, He would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Therefore, as He was coming into the world, He said:You did not want sacrifice and offering,but You prepared a body for Me.

By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is set on fire by hell.

Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

He was chosen before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the times for you

Resist him and be firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.

He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

For everything that belongs to the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now.

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent His Son as the world’s Savior.

In this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, for we are as He is in this world.

because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

And who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.