and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

Let the whole earth fear the Lord! Let all who live in the world stand in awe of him!

Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

The heavens belong to you, as does the earth. You made the world and all it contains.

Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God.

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

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

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”

For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

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

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.