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WORLD

(See EARTH)

the physical world:

♦ God created it:

• Genesis 1:1; Psalms 90:2; Jeremiah 10:12; Acts 17:24

♦ it is firmly established:

• 1 Chronicles 16:30

♦ God owns it:

• Job 37:13; Psalms 24:1; 50:12

♦ God will subject the world to come to man through Christ:

• Hebrews 2:5-10

the world of mankind:

God's relationship to

♦ He will judge the world

• Psalms 96:13

♦ He will punish the world's sin

• Isaiah 13:11

♦ He loves the world

• John 3:16

♦ He sent His Son as a gift to save the world

• John 3:16-17; 17:18, 23 (cf. 1 John 4:14)

♦ He was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself

• 2 Corinthians 5:19

♦ He is not known by the world

• John 17:25

Christ's relationship to

♦ the world was made through Him

• John 1:10

♦ He takes away the sin of the world

• John 1:29

♦ He is the Savior of the world

• John 4:42; 1 John 4:14

♦ He gives Himself for the life of the world

• John 6:51

♦ He is the light of the world

• John 8:12

♦ He desires that the world know that He loves the Father

• John 14:31

♦ He has overcome the world

• John 16:33

♦ He will judge the world in righteousness

• Acts 17:31

♦ He came into the world to save sinners

• 1 Timothy 1:15

♦ He provided a substitutionary sacrifice for the world

• 1 John 2:2

♦ He will become ruler of the kingdom of the world

• Revelation 11:15

Spirit's relationship to

♦ He witnesses to the world through believers

• John 15:26-27; Acts 1:8

♦ He convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment

• John 16:7-11

various other relationships to

♦ Israel will fill the whole world with fruit

• Isaiah 27:6

♦ believers are the light of the world

• Matthew 5:14

♦ believers must evangelize the world

• Matthew 28:19; Acts 1:8 (cf. Matthew 24:14)

♦ sin entered the world through Adam's transgresssion

• Romans 5:12

♦ believers will judge the world

• 1 Corinthians 6:2

♦ Noah's preparation for the flood brought condemnation of the world

• Hebrews 11:7

♦ the world was not worthy of the heroes of faith

• Hebrews 11:38

♦ Satan deceives the whole world

• Revelation 12:9

basic time periods of the world:

♦ the ancient world:

• 2 Peter 2:5 (cf. 3:6)

♦ the present world:

• 1 Timothy 6:17; 2 Timothy 4:10

♦ the world to come:

• Hebrews 2:5

the evil world-system:

(See WORLDLINESS)

♦ Christ judged it by His death on the cross:

• John 12:31-33

♦ Satan is the ruler of it:

• John 12:31; 14:30 (cf. 1 John 5:19)

♦ it cannot receive the Spirit:

• John 14:17

♦ it hates Christ and His believers:

• John 15:18-19; 17:14; 1 John 3:13

♦ Christ and His believers are in it but not of it:

• John 15:19; 17:14-16; 1 Corinthians 5:9-10

♦ the believer is chosen out of it:

• John 15:19

♦ It persecutes Christ and His believers:

• John 15:20-21

♦ believers have tribulation and suffering in it:

• John 16:33; 1 Peter 5:9

♦ Christ's kingdom does not originate from it:

• John 18:36

♦ believers will not be condemned with it:

• 1 Corinthians 11:32

♦ Satan is the god of it:

• 2 Corinthians 4:4

♦ unbelievers are without God in it:

• Ephesians 2:12

♦ believers are strangers and aliens in it:

• 1 Peter 2:11

♦ believers have escaped the corruption that is in it:

• 2 Peter 1:4

♦ believers are not known by it:

• 1 John 3:1

♦ false prophets are in it:

• 1 John 4:1, 5 (cf. 2 John 7)

♦ the spirit of antichrist is in it:

• 1 John 4:3, 5 (cf. 2 John 7)

various other uses:

♦ the nether world:

• Ezekiel 32:18

♦ the wisdom of the world:

• 1 Corinthians 1:20-21

♦ the spirit of the world:

• 1 Corinthians 2:12

♦ the sorrow of the world:

• 2 Corinthians 7:10

♦ the course of this world:

• Ephesians 2:2

♦ elementary principles of the world:

• Colossians 2:8

♦ the world of the ungodly:

• 2 Peter 2:5

This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.

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