I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”

And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” – and I am the worst of them!

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

Jesus said,] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –

In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

Then Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world – to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”