Matt.4.8Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Matt.5.14“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matt.13.22As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Matt.13.35This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “ I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”
Matt.13.38The field is the world, and the good seed is the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
Matt.16.26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
Matt.18.7“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
Matt.19.28Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matt.24.14And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matt.24.21For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
Matt.25.34Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Matt.26.13Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
Mark.4.19but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Mark.8.36For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
Mark.14.9And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
Mark.16.15And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Luke.2.1In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
Luke.4.5And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
Luke.9.25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
Luke.11.50so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,
Luke.12.30For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
Luke.16.8The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
Luke.21.26people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
John.1.9The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
John.1.10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
John.1.29The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John.3.16“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John.3.17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John.3.19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
John.4.42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
John.6.14When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
John.6.33For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John.6.51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John.7.4For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
John.7.7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
John.8.12Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John.8.23He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
John.8.26I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
John.9.5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
John.9.32Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
John.9.39Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
John.10.36do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
John.11.9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
John.11.27She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
John.12.19So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”
John.12.25Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
John.12.31Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
John.12.46I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
John.12.47If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
John.13.1Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John.14.17even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John.14.19Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
John.14.22Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”
John.14.27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John.14.30I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,
John.14.31but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
John.15.18“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
John.15.19If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John.16.8And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
John.16.11concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
John.16.20Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
John.16.21When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
John.16.28I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
John.16.33I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John.17.5And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
John.17.6“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
John.17.9I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
John.17.11And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
John.17.13But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John.17.14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
John.17.15I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
John.17.16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
John.17.18As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
John.17.21that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John.17.23I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
John.17.24Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John.17.25O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
John.18.20Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.
John.18.36Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
John.18.37Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John.21.25Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
Acts.11.28And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).
Acts.17.6And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Acts.17.24The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
Acts.17.31because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Acts.19.27And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”
Acts.24.5For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Rom.1.8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
Rom.1.20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Rom.3.6By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Rom.3.19Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Rom.4.13For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom.5.12Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Rom.5.13for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Rom.10.18But 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.”
Rom.11.12Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
Rom.11.15For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
Rom.12.2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1Cor.1.20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1Cor.1.21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1Cor.1.27But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;
1Cor.1.28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
1Cor.2.12Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
1Cor.3.19For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
1Cor.3.22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,
1Cor.4.9For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
1Cor.4.13when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
1Cor.5.10not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
1Cor.6.2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1Cor.7.31and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
1Cor.11.32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
1Cor.14.10There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,
2Cor.1.12For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicityand godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
2Cor.4.4In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2Cor.5.19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Gal.4.3In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
Gal.4.9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Gal.6.14But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Eph.1.4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Eph.2.2in which you once walked, the course of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Eph.2.12remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Phil.2.15that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Col.1.6which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,
Col.2.8See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Col.2.20If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—
1Tim.1.15The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
1Tim.3.16Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
1Tim.6.7for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
2Tim.4.10For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Heb.1.2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Heb.1.6And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “ Let all God’s angels worship him.”
Heb.2.5Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
Heb.4.3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “ As I swore in my wrath, ‘ They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb.9.26for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb.10.5Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “ Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
Heb.11.7By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Heb.11.38of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Jas.1.27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, and the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Jas.2.5Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Jas.3.6And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Jas.4.4You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1Pet.1.20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for your sake,
1Pet.5.9Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
2Pet.1.4by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
2Pet.2.5if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2Pet.2.20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2Pet.3.6and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
1John.2.2He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John.2.15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1John.2.16For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1John.2.17And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1John.3.1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1John.3.13Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
1John.3.17But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
1John.4.1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1John.4.3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
1John.4.4Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1John.4.5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
1John.4.9In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1John.4.14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1John.4.17By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
1John.5.4For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1John.5.5Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1John.5.19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
2John.1.7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Rev.3.10Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Rev.11.15Then the seventh angel blew 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 shall reign forever and ever.”
Rev.12.9And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Rev.13.8and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.
Rev.16.14For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
Rev.17.8The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
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