'Of the World' in the Bible

Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.

Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

Let the earth be full of the fear of the Lord; let all the people of the world be in holy fear of him.

When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.

And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.

Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;

You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.

And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.

As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.

So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,

And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Make clear to us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?

Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.

But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

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

And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

I have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your words.

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

My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.

They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:

Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?

And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.

And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.