'Of the World' in the Bible

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,

You are the light of the world: a city that lies upon a mountain can not be hid:

that the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things that have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

for then shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor shall ever be.

Then the King will say to those on his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

And the devil took him up into a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, in a moment of time.

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

For all these things the nations of the world seek after; but your Father knows that you have need of these things.

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world.

and they said to the woman: We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is in truth the Savior of the world, the Christ.

I am the bread that lives, which came down from heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

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

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

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

I have made known thy name to the men that thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them, to me, and they have kept thy word.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the Evil One.

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

Father, I wish that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, nor to his posterity, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.

But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily; their voice has gone forth into all the earth: and -their words to the ends of the world.

Now, if their fall be the riches of the world, and their loss be the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their full acceptance be the riches of the world?

For, if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the reception of them be, but life from the dead?

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may bring to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may put to shame the strong;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are;

And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:

when defamed, we entreat; we have become like the outcasts of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

yet without the lest allusion to the lewd, or the covetous, or the extortioners, or the idolaters of this world; for then you must go out of the world;

but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

For godly sorrow works repentance not to be regretted, which leads to salvation: but the sorrow of the world works death.

So, also, we, when we were minors, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

according as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not ac cording to Christ:

If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances?

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

for then, he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the ages, he has appeared in order to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friend ship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.

who was indeed foreordained before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you,

For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first.

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

They are of the world: there fore, they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of the world has become our Lord's and his Christ s, and he shall reign from age to age.

And all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, those whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.

The beast that you saw, was, and is not, and will come out of the abyss, and go to perdition; and those who dwell on the earth, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder, when they see the beast that was, and is not, though he is yet present.