'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 their glory.

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

So was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world."

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will 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:

Then the devil took him up to a high place, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

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

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

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

They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man is indeed the Savior of the world."

I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

As long as 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 chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

"I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

I have given them your 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 that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one.

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

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

For since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his eternal power and deity, has been clearly seen, being understood by the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;

The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that he would be heir of the world, was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

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

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong,

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

when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

not at all meaning the immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

but a married man is concerned about the affairs of the world, how he may please his wife,

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman, and the virgin, is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, how she may please her husband.

For the weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds.

So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the elemental things of the world.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him. In love

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to human tradition, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as,

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of lifeis not of the Father but is of the world.

They are of the world and therefore speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."

and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, because he was and is not and will come.