Now in those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

Then the devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn to a loaf of bread."

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"

and one of them named Agabus got up and, through the Holy Spirit, foretold that there was going to be a great famine all over the world, which occurred in the reign of Claudius.

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

You are the light of the world. A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come.

And what was sown among the thorns illustrates the man who hears the message, and the worries of the times and the pleasures of being rich choke the truth out, and he yields no fruit.

the field is the world; the good seed are the members of the kingdom; the wild wheat seed are the followers of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the close of the age, the reapers are angels. read more. Just as the wild wheat plants are gathered and burned up, so it will be at the close of the age.

So it will be at the close of the age; the angels will go out and separate the wicked from the upright,

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to Him by themselves, and said, "Tell us when this is to take place, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age."

for there will be greater misery at that time than ever has been since the world began, or ever will be again.

Then the King will say to those at His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

I solemnly say to you, all over the world wherever this good news is proclaimed, the good deed that she has done will be told, in memory of her."

and teach them to practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."

but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.

"as He promised by the lips of His ancient prophets,

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he acted with shrewd business sense, for the men of the world act with more business sense toward their fellows than the men who enjoy spiritual light.

who will not receive in return many times more in this world, and in the next eternal life."

Jesus said to them, "The people of this world marry and are married, but those who are considered worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world. He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.

He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

Jesus and His disciples, too, were invited to the wedding.

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables. Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!" read more. His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life. For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

And He had to go through Samaria.

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

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So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

for the bread that God gives is what comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."

for no one does anything in secret when he is trying to be known to the public. If you are going to do this, show yourself publicly to the world."

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

He continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this present world; I do not belong to this present world.

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

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"

This world is now in process of judgment; the prince of this world is now to be expelled.

This world is now in process of judgment; the prince of this world is now to be expelled.

I have come as light into the world, so that no one who continues to believe in me can remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words and fails to keep them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge but to save the world.

If anyone hears my words and fails to keep them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge but to save the world.

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me. If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

about judgment, because the evil ruler of this world has been condemned.

about judgment, because the evil ruler of this world has been condemned.

I most solemnly say to you, you will weep and wail, but the world will be glad; you will grieve but your grief will be turned into gladness.

"I have made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

for I have given them the teachings that you gave me, and they have accepted them, and they have come to know in reality that I did come from you, and so they are convinced that you did send me.

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to it.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to it.

though He did not fail to furnish evidences about Himself, in constantly showing His kindness to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruit-producing seasons, in giving you food and happiness to your heart's content."

who has been making this known from ages past.'

The God who made the world and all that it contains, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by human hands,

First, through Jesus Christ I thank my God for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading all over the world.

Forever since the creation of the world, His invisible characteristics -- His eternal power and divine nature -- have been made intelligible and clearly visible by His works. So they are without excuse,

So here is the comparison: As through one man sin came into the world, and death as the consequence of sin, and death spread to all men; because all men sinned.

Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.

So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom?

So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom? For since in accordance with the wisdom of God the world had never in reality, by means of its wisdom, come to know God, God chose through the nonsense of the message proclaimed, to save the people who put their faith in Him.

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame, what the world calls of low degree, yea, what it counts as nothing and what it thinks does not exist, God chose to put a stop to what it thinks exists,

Yet, when among mature believers we do set forth a wisdom, but a wisdom that does not belong to this world or to the leaders of this world who are passing away;

Not one of this world's leaders understands it, for if they had, they would never have crucified our glorious Lord.

Now we have not received the spirit that belongs to the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may get an insight into the blessings God has graciously given us.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool. For this world's wisdom is mere nonsense to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church, but for God to judge those who are outside? You must expel that wicked person from your membership.

Do you not know that God's people are to judge the world? And if the world is to be judged before you, are you unfit to try such petty cases?

and those who are enjoying the world as though they were not entirely absorbed in it. For the outward order of this world is passing away.

A married man is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how he can please his wife, and so his devotion is divided. An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but a married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how she can please her husband.

Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.

For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.

But if anyone is inclined to be contentious about it, I for my part prescribe no other practice than this, and neither do the churches of God.

But since we do bring down upon us this judgment, we are being disciplined by the Lord, so that finally we may not be condemned along with the world.

But since we do bring down upon us this judgment, we are being disciplined by the Lord, so that finally we may not be condemned along with the world.

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation.

who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;

for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,

but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

far above every other government, authority, power, and dominion, yea, far above every other title that can be conferred, not only in this world but in the world to come.

in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

to show, throughout the coming ages, the boundless generosity of His unmerited favor shown us in His goodness to us through Christ Jesus.

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

Slaves, practice obedience to your earthly masters in everything, not as though they were watching you and as though you were merely pleasing men, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

he is accompanied by Onesimus, a faithful and dearly loved brother, who is one of your own number. They will tell you everything that is going on here.

To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

To the pure everything is pure, but to the impure and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are impure.

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

but in these latter days He has spoken to us through a Son, whom He had appointed lawful owner of everything, and through whom He had made the worlds.

Since then it still remains that some are being admitted to it and that those who first had the good news told to them were not admitted because of disobedience,

and have experienced how good God's message is and the mighty powers of the age to come,

for, if that had been the case, He would have had to suffer over and over again, ever since the creation of the world. But, as it is, once at the close of the ages He has appeared, to put away sin by His sacrifice.

So, when Christ was coming into the world, He said:

By faith we understand that the worlds were created, beautifully coordinated, and now exist, at God's command; so the things that we see did not develop out of mere matter.

Though all these people by their faith won God's approval, yet none of them received what He had promised, for God had provided something still better for us, that they, apart from us might not attain perfection.

Listen, my dearly loved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

But someone may say, "You have faith, and I have good deeds. Show me your faith without any good deeds, but I will show you mine by my good deeds."

You see that faith cooperated with his good deeds, and by his good deeds faith was made complete;

Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.

And the tongue is a fire, and takes its place among the parts of our bodies as a world of evil; it soils the whole body and sets on fire the circle of man's nature, and itself is set on fire by hell.

Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show by his noble living that his good deeds are done in humility, which wisdom prompts.

You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures. You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has come into the possession of our Lord and His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever."

And they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and wonderful are your works, Lord God, Almighty One; upright and true your ways, O King of the ages.