I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

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,

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 –

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, Lord, by the powerful breath from your nose.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?

But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?

We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.