'Of the World' in the Bible

Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world?

Now we have received the Spirit ??not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may understand what God bestows upon us.

When one cries, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," what are you but men of the world?

when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.