'Of the World' in the Bible

To the overseer, to the sons of Korah: chanting. Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the World:

Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches.

Again, the devil takes him into a very high mount, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;

Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain.

So that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things having been hid from the foundation of the world.

For then shall be great pressure, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor should be.

Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

That the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world be required of this generation;

For all these things the nations of the world seek for: and your Father knows that ye have need of these.

In the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, be taking away the sin of the world.

And they said to the woman, That we no more believe for thy speaking: for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is truly Christ, the Saviour of the world.

I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.

Again therefore Jesus spake to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he following me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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

If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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

I ask not that thou take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from the evil.

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

O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:

For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith.

And if their fall the riches of the world, and their disaster the riches of the nations; how much more their fulness?

For if their rejection the reconciliation of the world, what the reception, but life from the dead?

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;

And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

And he married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,

For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.

(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.

Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?

They are of the world: for this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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

And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

And all they dwelling upon earth shall worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world.

The wild beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up from the abyss, and go forward to perdition: and they dwelling upon the earth shall wonder, whose names have not been written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, seeing the wild beast that was, and is not, although he is.