Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

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

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.’

But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.

God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you.

My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine.

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.