Bible Verses about “the world”

“‹For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.›”

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

“For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”

“‹Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.›”

“¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

“Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”

“[And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.”

“That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”

“¶ ‹Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.›”

“¶ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.”

“¶ ‹Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.›”

“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

“Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,”

“‹I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.›”

“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”

“‹As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.›”

“‹They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›”

“‹I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›”

“¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.”

“‹I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.›”