the world
Matthew Chapter 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew Chapter 24:42
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
John Chapter 15:19
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.
John Chapter 17:9
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Romans Chapter 12:2
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.
2 Corinthians Chapter 1:12
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.
Galatians Chapter 6:14
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.
Philippians Chapter 2:15
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;
Colossians Chapter 2:20
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,
James Chapter 1:27
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.
1 Peter Chapter 2:9
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:
1 John Chapter 2:15
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.
1 John Chapter 2:16
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.
1 John Chapter 2:17
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 John Chapter 4:4
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.
1 John Chapter 5:19
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.