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Words of Wisdom
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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
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1 Samuel 2
:8
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And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
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2 Samuel 22
:16
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Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
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1 Chronicles 16
:30
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He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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Job 18
:18
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Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
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Job 34
:13
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And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
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Job 37
:12
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And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
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Psalms 9
:8
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From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
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Psalms 17
:14
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Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
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Psalms 18
:15
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Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
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Psalms 19
:4
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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
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Psalms 22
:27
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The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
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Psalms 24
:1
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Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
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Psalms 33
:8
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Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
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Psalms 49
:1
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If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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Psalms 50
:12
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Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
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Psalms 73
:12
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The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
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Psalms 77
:18
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The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
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Psalms 89
:11
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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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Psalms 90
:2
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The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
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Psalms 93
:1
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Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
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Psalms 96
:10
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His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
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Psalms 97
:4
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Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
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Psalms 98
:7
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While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
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Proverbs 8
:26
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He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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Ecclesiastes 3
:11
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And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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Isaiah 13
:11
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That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
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Isaiah 14
:17
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All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
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Isaiah 18
:3
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And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
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Isaiah 23
:17
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The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
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Isaiah 24
:4
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With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
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Isaiah 26
:9
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He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
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Isaiah 27
:6
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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
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Isaiah 34
:1
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I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Isaiah 38
:11
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But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
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Isaiah 45
:17
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Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
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Isaiah 62
:11
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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
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Isaiah 64
:4
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He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
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Jeremiah 10
:12
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And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
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Jeremiah 25
:26
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He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
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Jeremiah 51
:15
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The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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Lamentations 4
:12
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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
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Nahum 1
:5
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Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
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Matthew 4
:8
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Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
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Matthew 5
:14
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And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
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Matthew 12
:32
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He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
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Matthew 13
:22
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For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Matthew 16
:26
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Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
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Matthew 18
:7
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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
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Matthew 24
:3
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Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
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Matthew 25
:34
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Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
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Matthew 26
:13
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Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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Matthew 28
:20
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And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
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Mark 4
:19
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For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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Mark 8
:36
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But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
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Mark 10
:30
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Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
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Mark 14
:9
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And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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Mark 16
:15
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As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
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Luke 1
:70
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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
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Luke 2
:1
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And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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Luke 4
:5
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For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
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Luke 9
:25
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That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
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Luke 11
:50
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For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
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Luke 12
:30
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And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
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Luke 16
:8
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Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
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Luke 18
:30
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And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
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Luke 20
:34, 35
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That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
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John 1
:9, 10
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
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John 3
:16, 17
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And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
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John 4
:42
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Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
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John 6
:14
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For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
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John 7
:4
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Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
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John 8
:12
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As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
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John 9
:5
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Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
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John 10
:36
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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
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John 11
:9
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The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
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John 12
:19
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Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
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John 13
:1
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Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
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John 14
:17
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
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John 15
:18, 19
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And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
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John 16
:8
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And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
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John 17
:5, 6
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Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
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John 18
:20
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And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
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John 21
:25
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Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
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Acts 3
:21
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And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
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Acts 11
:28
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Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
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Acts 15
:18
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And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
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Acts 17
:6
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So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
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Acts 19
:27
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For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
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Acts 24
:5
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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
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Romans 1
:8
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God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
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Romans 3
:6
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For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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Romans 4
:13
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Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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Romans 5
:12, 13
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But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
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Romans 10
:18
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Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
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Romans 11
:12
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And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Romans 12
:2
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Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
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Romans 16
:25
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Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
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1 Corinthians 1
:20, 21
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Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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1 Corinthians 2
:6-8
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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1 Corinthians 3
:18, 19
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For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
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1 Corinthians 4
:9
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Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
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1 Corinthians 5
:10
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Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
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1 Corinthians 6
:2
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And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
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1 Corinthians 7
:31
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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
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1 Corinthians 8
:4
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Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
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1 Corinthians 10
:11
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But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
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1 Corinthians 11
:32
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There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
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1 Corinthians 14
:10
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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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2 Corinthians 1
:12
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In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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2 Corinthians 4
:4
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To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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2 Corinthians 5
:19
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For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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2 Corinthians 7
:10
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Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
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Galatians 1
:4
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Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
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Galatians 4
:3
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But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
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Galatians 6
:14
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According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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Ephesians 1
:4
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Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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Ephesians 2
:2
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And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
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Ephesians 3
:9
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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Ephesians 6
:12
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That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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Philippians 2
:15
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Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
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Colossians 1
:6
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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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Colossians 2
:8
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This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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1 Timothy 1
:15
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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
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1 Timothy 3
:16
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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
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1 Timothy 6
:7
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Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
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2 Timothy 1
:9
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For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
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2 Timothy 4
:10
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In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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Titus 1
:2
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Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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Titus 2
:12
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Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
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Hebrews 1
:2
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For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
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Hebrews 2
:5
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For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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Hebrews 4
:3
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And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
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Hebrews 6
:5
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Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
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Hebrews 9
:1
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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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Hebrews 10
:5
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Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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Hebrews 11
:3
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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James 1
:27
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Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
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James 2
:5
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And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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James 3
:6
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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James 4
:4
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Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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1 Peter 1
:20
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Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
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1 Peter 5
:9
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Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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2 Peter 1
:4
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And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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2 Peter 2
:5
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Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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2 Peter 3
:6
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And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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1 John 2
:2
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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
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1 John 3
:1
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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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1 John 4
:1
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For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
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1 John 5
:4, 5
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For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
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2 John 1
:7
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Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
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Revelation 3
:10
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And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
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Revelation 11
:15
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And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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Revelation 12
:9
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And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
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Revelation 13
:3
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For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
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Revelation 16
:14
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The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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Revelation 17
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