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κόσμοςkósmos
GreekG2889187 occurrences (KJV)

orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by implication, the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively (morally))

KJV renders it: adorning, world

Where it appears(showing the first 152 of 187)

  • Matt 4:8Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
  • Matt 5:14You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
  • Matt 13:35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
  • Matt 13:38the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
  • Matt 16:26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Matt 18:7“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
  • Matt 24:21for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
  • Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
  • Matt 26:13Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”
  • Mark 8:36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
  • Mark 14:9Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
  • Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
  • Luke 9:25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
  • Luke 11:50that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
  • Luke 12:30For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
  • John 1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
  • John 1:10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
  • John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
  • John 3:19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
  • John 4:42They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
  • John 6:14When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
  • John 6:33For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
  • John 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
  • John 7:4For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
  • John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
  • John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
  • John 8:23He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
  • John 8:26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
  • John 9:5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
  • John 9:39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
  • John 10:36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
  • John 11:9Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
  • John 11:27She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
  • John 12:19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
  • John 12:25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
  • John 12:31Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
  • John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
  • John 12:47If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
  • John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
  • John 14:17the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
  • John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
  • John 14:22Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
  • John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
  • John 14:30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
  • John 14:31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
  • John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
  • John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • John 16:8When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
  • John 16:11about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
  • John 16:20Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
  • John 16:21A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
  • John 16:28I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
  • John 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
  • John 17:5Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
  • John 17:6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
  • John 17:9I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
  • John 17:11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
  • John 17:12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
  • John 17:13But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
  • John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • John 17:15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
  • John 17:16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
  • John 17:18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
  • John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
  • John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
  • John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
  • John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
  • John 18:20Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
  • John 18:36Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
  • John 18:37Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
  • John 21:25There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
  • Acts 17:24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,
  • Rom 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
  • Rom 1:20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.
  • Rom 3:6May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
  • Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • Rom 4:13For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
  • Rom 5:12Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
  • Rom 5:13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
  • Rom 11:12Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
  • Rom 11:15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
  • 1 Cor 1:20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1 Cor 1:21For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
  • 1 Cor 1:27but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
  • 1 Cor 1:28and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
  • 1 Cor 2:12But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
  • 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
  • 1 Cor 3:22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
  • 1 Cor 4:9For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
  • 1 Cor 4:13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
  • 1 Cor 5:10yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
  • 1 Cor 6:2Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • 1 Cor 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
  • 1 Cor 7:33but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
  • 1 Cor 7:34There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.
  • 1 Cor 8:4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • 1 Cor 14:10There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
  • 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • 2 Cor 5:19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
  • 2 Cor 7:10For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
  • Gal 4:3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
  • Gal 6:14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Eph 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
  • Eph 2:2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
  • Eph 2:12that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Phil 2:15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
  • Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
  • Col 2:8Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:20If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
  • 1 Tim 1:15The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
  • 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
  • 1 Tim 6:7For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
  • Heb 4:3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
  • Heb 9:26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  • Heb 10:5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me.
  • Heb 11:7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
  • Heb 11:38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
  • Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
  • Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
  • Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
  • 1 Pet 3:3Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
  • 1 Pet 5:9Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
  • 2 Pet 1:4by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
  • 2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
  • 2 Pet 3:6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
  • 1 Jn 2:2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
  • 1 Jn 2:15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
  • 1 Jn 2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
  • 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
  • 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
  • 1 Jn 3:13Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
  • 1 Jn 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
  • 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • 1 Jn 4:3and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
  • 1 Jn 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
  • 1 Jn 4:5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
  • 1 Jn 4:9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
  • 1 Jn 4:14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
  • 1 Jn 4:17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
  • 1 Jn 5:4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
  • 1 Jn 5:5Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • 1 Jn 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
  • 2 Jn 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
  • Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
  • Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
  • Rev 17:8The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.