Bible Verses about “the world”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:”

“Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.”

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.”

“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

“We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”

“that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,”

“"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”

“Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.”

“Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.”

“He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.”

“If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,”

“I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.”

“But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

“As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.”

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

“I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”

“For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.”

“I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.”