world

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?

Matthew 16:26, KJV

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!

Matthew 18:7, KJV

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come

Matthew 24:14, KJV

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: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Matthew 25:34-36, KJV

As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

Luke 1:70, KJV

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

Luke 11:49-51, KJV

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Luke 12:29-32, KJV

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

John 1:29, KJV

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.

John 6:14, KJV

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? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

John 10:37-38, KJV

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

John 17:13-19, KJV

And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 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.

Acts 3:20-21, KJV

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Acts 17:31, KJV

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

2 Corinthians 7:9-10, KJV

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

1 Timothy 6:7, KJV

again, that this visible world hath for its greater pare the heaven and the earth, which briefly comprise all made and created natures.

Augustine, Confessions

and He makes intercession to You for my sins who hath overcome the world; numbering me among the weak members of His body; because Your eyes have seen that of Him which is imperfect, and in Your book shall all be written.

Augustine, Confessions

And in all the bitterness which by Your mercy followed our worldly affairs, as we looked towards the end, why we should suffer all this, darkness met us

Augustine, Confessions

and into this world He came to save sinners, unto whom my soul confesses, and He heals it, for it hath sinned against Him.

Augustine, Confessions

And that the soul of man, though it bears witness to the light, yet itself is not that light; but the Word of God, being God, is that true light that lights every man has come into the world.

Augustine, Confessions

Let them perish from Thy presence, O God, as perish vain talkers and seducers of the soul: who observing that in deliberating there were two wills, affirm that there are two minds in us of two kinds, one good, the other evil. Themselves are truly evil, when they hold these evil things; and themselves shall become good when they hold the truth and assent unto the truth, that Thy Apostle may say to them, Ye were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord. But they, wishing to be light, not in the Lord, but in themselves, imagining the nature of the soul to be that which God is, are made more gross darkness through a dreadful arrogancy; for that they went back farther from Thee, the true Light that enlightened every man that cometh into the world.

Augustine, Confessions

You have chosen the weak things of the world to confound the strong; and the base things of this world, and the things despised have You chosen, and those things which are not, that You might bring to nought things that are.

Augustine, Confessions

You thunder down upon the ambitions of the world, and the foundations of the mountains tremble.

Augustine, Confessions

Your hands, Who have prepared the medicines of faith, and have applied them to the diseases of the whole world and given unto them so great authority.

Augustine, Confessions

And of the world's puny children, Of all puniest perhaps is he

Rumi

At last thou hast departed and gone to the Unseen; Tis marvellous by what way thou wentest from the world. Thou didst strongly shake thy wings and feathers, and having broken thy cage Didst take to the air and journey towards the world of soul.

Rumi

By the help of his grace I am become safe, because The unseen king saith to me, 'Thou art the soul of the world.' The essence of the meaning of 'He' has filled my heart and soul.

Rumi

On every side is clamour and tumult, in every street are candles and torches, For tonight the teeming world gives birth to the world everlasting.

Rumi

Refrain from speaking, that you may win speech hereafter; Abandon life and the world, that you may behold the Life of the world.

Rumi

Tis the rays of the soul's mirror that bring the world to view

Rumi

Millions busily toil, that the human race may continue; But by only a few is propagated our kind Thousands of seeds by the autumn are scattered, yet fruit is engendered Only by few, for the most back to the element go. But if one only can blossom, that one is able to scatter Even a bright living world, filled with creations eterne

Schiller, Different Destinies

Both of us seek for truth-in the world without thou dost seek it, I in the bosom within; both of us therefore succeed. If the eye be healthy, it sees from without the Creator; And if the heart, then within doubtless it mirrors the world.

Schiller, The Agreement

Be watchful for the world lasts but a moment, and a moment spent with wisdom is better than an age with folly.

Saadi, Bustan

He drinks of the pure wine of Unity who is forgetful of both this world and the next.

Saadi, Bustan

He only is wise who concerns himself with his own affairs and is indifferent to the world.

Saadi, Bustan

In the remembrance of their Friend they have turned their backs upon the world; they are so fascinated by the Cup-bearer that they have spilled the wine

Saadi, Bustan

Since yesterday has gone and tomorrow has not come, take account of this one moment that now is. In this garden of the world there is not a cypress that has grown which the wind of death has not uprooted.

Saadi, Bustan

With such sincerity hast thou placed thy head at her feet that thou art oblivious to the world.

Saadi, Bustan

I saw a dervish who had withdrawn into a cave, shut the door of communication between the world and himself, and with his lofty and independent eye viewed emperors and kings without awe or reverence:

Saadi, Gulistan

Life stands on the verge of a single breath; and this world is an existence between two nonentities.

Saadi, Gulistan

Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.

Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint

These three world-sharers, these competitors, Are in thy vessel

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 7

Tell him he wears the rose Of youth upon him, from which the world should note Something particular.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, Scene 13

And let this world no longer be a stage But let one spirit of the firstborn Cain Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, And darkness be the burier of the dead.

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Act 1, Scene 1

I speak of peace while covert enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world.

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Prologue

It is the greatest admiration in the universal world when the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept.

Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4, Scene 1

Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd, Because I wish'd this world's eternity

Shakespeare, Henry VI Par 2, Act 2, Scene 4

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age.

Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 1

There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships accurst much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 2

And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares, So that betwixt their titles and low name There's nothing differs but the outward fame.

Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4

Bad is the world, and all will come to naught When such ill dealing must be seen in thought

Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 3, Scene 6

Gratiano: You look not well, Signor Antonio. You have too much respect upon the world. They lose it that do buy it with much care. Believe me, you are marvelously changed. // Antonio: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano -- A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round

Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 2

Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in 't!

Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3

Suns of the world may stain when heav'n's sun staineth.

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

If eyes corrupt by over-partial looks Be anchored in the bay where all men ride, Why should my heart think that a several plot Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?

Shakespeare, Sonnet 137