κόσμος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Gen.2:1, Deu.4:19 17:3, Isa.24:21 40:26 (צבא), Exo.33:5, 6 Jer.2:32 4:30, Eze.7:20 16:11 23:40 (עֲדִי), Isa.61:10 (כְּלִי), al., Wis.2:24 and freq., Sir.6:30, al ;] 1. order (Hom., Plat., al.). 2. ornament, adornment, esp. of women (Hom., al.): 1Pe.3:3. 3. Later, the world or universe, as an ordered system (Plat., al.): Act.17:24, Rom.4:13, 1Co.3:22, Php.2:15, Heb.4:3, al. 4. In late writers only, the world, i.e. the earth (= ἡ οἰκουμένη, cf. Mat.4:8 with Luk.4:5): Mat.4:8, Mrk.16:[15], Col.2:20, 1Ti.6:7, al.; hence by meton., (a) of the human inhabitants of the world: Mat.5:14 15:38, Mrk.14:9, Jhn.1:10 4:42 12:47, Rom.3:6, 1Co.4:13, 2Co.5:19, 2Pe.2:5, al.; (b) of worldly affairs or possessions: Mat.16:26, Mrk.8:36, Luk.9:25, 1Co.7:31, 1Jn.2:16, al.; (with) in ethical sense, of the ungodly: Jhn.7:7 14:17, 27 1Co.1:21, Jas.1:27, 1Jn.4:4, al.; (d) metaphorically: ὁ κ. τῆς ἀδικίας, Jas.3:6. SYN.: αἰών, which see (cf . also Dalman, Words, 162ff.; Tr., Syn., §lix; Westc., additional note on Jhn.1:10; DB, iv, 938ff.). (AS)
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G2889 — κόσμος
kosmos · world · Greek
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Matthew 4:8 · κόσμουAgain, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;Matthew 5:14 · κόσμου·Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.Matthew 13:38 · κόσμος·and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;Matthew 16:26 · κόσμονFor what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?Matthew 18:7 · κόσμῳWoe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!Matthew 24:21 · κόσμουfor then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.Matthew 25:34 · κόσμου.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 :Matthew 26:13 · κόσμῳ,Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.Mark 8:36 · κόσμονFor what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?Mark 14:9 · κόσμον,And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.Luke 9:25 · κόσμονFor what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?Luke 11:50 · κόσμουthat the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;Luke 12:30 · κόσμουFor all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.John 1:9 · κόσμον.There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world.John 1:10 · κόσμῳ · κόσμος · κόσμοςHe was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.John 1:29 · κόσμου.On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!John 3:16 · κόσμον,For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.John 3:17 · κόσμον · κόσμον, · κόσμοςFor God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.John 3:19 · κόσμον,And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.John 4:42 · κόσμουand they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.John 6:14 · κόσμον.¶When therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they said, This is of a truth the prophet that cometh into the world.John 6:33 · κόσμῳ.¶For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.John 6:51 · κόσμουI am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.John 7:4 · κόσμῳ.For no man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world.John 7:7 · κόσμοςThe world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.John 8:12 · κόσμου.Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.John 8:23 · κόσμου · κόσμουAnd he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.John 8:26 · κόσμον.I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world.John 9:5 · κόσμῳ · κόσμου.When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.John 9:39 · κόσμονAnd Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.John 10:36 · κόσμον,say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?John 11:9 · κόσμουJesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.John 11:27 · κόσμονShe saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, even he that cometh into the world.John 12:19 · κόσμοςThe Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Behold how ye prevail nothing: lo, the world is gone after him.John 12:25 · κόσμῳHe that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.John 12:31 · κόσμου · κόσμουNow is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.John 12:46 · κόσμονI am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.John 12:47 · κόσμον · κόσμον.And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.John 13:1 · κόσμου · κόσμῳNow before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.John 14:17 · κόσμοςeven the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.John 14:19 · κόσμοςYet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.John 14:22 · κόσμῳ;¶Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, Lord, what is come to pass that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?John 14:27 · κόσμοςPeace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.John 14:30 · κόσμουI will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;John 14:31 · κόσμοςbut that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.John 15:18 · κόσμοςIf the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.John 15:19 · κόσμου · κόσμος · κόσμου · κόσμου, · κόσμος.¶If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.John 16:8 · κόσμονAnd he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:John 16:11 · κόσμουof judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged.John 16:20 · κόσμοςVerily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.John 16:21 · κόσμον.¶A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.John 16:28 · κόσμον· · κόσμονI came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.John 16:33 · κόσμῳ · κόσμον.¶These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.John 17:5 · κόσμονAnd now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.John 17:6 · κόσμου·I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.John 17:9 · κόσμουI pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:John 17:11 · κόσμῳ, · κόσμῳAnd I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are.John 17:13 · κόσμῳ,But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.John 17:14 · κόσμος · κόσμου · κόσμου.I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.John 17:15 · κόσμουI pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.John 17:16 · κόσμου · κόσμου.They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.John 17:18 · κόσμον, · κόσμον.As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.John 17:21 · κόσμοςthat they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.John 17:23 · κόσμοςI in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.John 17:24 · κόσμου.Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.John 17:25 · κόσμοςO righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;John 18:20 · κόσμῳ.Jesus answered him, I have spoken openly to the world; I ever taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and in secret spake I nothing.John 18:36 · κόσμου · κόσμουJesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.John 18:37 · κόσμονPilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.John 21:25 · κόσμονAnd 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 would not contain the books that should be written.Acts 17:24 · κόσμονThe God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;Romans 1:8 · κόσμῳ·First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.Romans 1:20 · κόσμουFor 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:Romans 3:6 · κόσμον;God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?Romans 3:19 · κόσμοςNow we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:Romans 4:13 · κόσμουFor not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.Romans 5:12 · κόσμονTherefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—Romans 5:13 · κόσμῳ,for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.Romans 11:12 · κόσμουNow if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?Romans 11:15 · κόσμου,For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?1 Corinthians 1:20 · κόσμουWhere is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?1 Corinthians 1:21 · κόσμοςFor seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.1 Corinthians 1:27 · κόσμου · κόσμουbut God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;1 Corinthians 1:28 · κόσμουand the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:1 Corinthians 2:12 · κόσμουBut 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 of God.1 Corinthians 3:19 · κόσμουFor the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:1 Corinthians 3:22 · κόσμοςwhether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;1 Corinthians 4:9 · κόσμῳFor, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.1 Corinthians 4:13 · κόσμουbeing defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.1 Corinthians 5:10 · κόσμου · κόσμουnot at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:1 Corinthians 6:2 · κόσμον · κόσμος,Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?1 Corinthians 7:31 · κόσμον · κόσμουand those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.1 Corinthians 7:33 · κόσμου,but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,1 Corinthians 7:34 · κόσμου,and is divided. So also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.1 Corinthians 8:4 · κόσμῳConcerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.1 Corinthians 11:32 · κόσμῳBut when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.1 Corinthians 14:10 · κόσμῳ,There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.2 Corinthians 1:12 · κόσμῳ,For our glorying 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 to you-ward.2 Corinthians 5:19 · κόσμονto wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.2 Corinthians 7:10 · κόσμουFor godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.Galatians 4:3 · κόσμουSo we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:Galatians 6:14 · κόσμος · κόσμῳ.But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.Ephesians 1:4 · κόσμουeven as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:Ephesians 2:2 · κόσμουwherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;Ephesians 2:12 · κόσμῳ·that ye 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.Philippians 2:15 · κόσμῳ,that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,Colossians 1:6 · κόσμῳwhich is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;Colossians 2:8 · κόσμουTake heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:Colossians 2:20 · κόσμου, · κόσμῳIf ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,1 Timothy 1:15 · κόσμονFaithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:1 Timothy 3:16 · κόσμῳ,And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.1 Timothy 6:7 · κόσμον,for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out;Hebrews 4:3 · κόσμουFor we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest:although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.Hebrews 9:26 · κόσμου,else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.Hebrews 10:5 · κόσμονWherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;Hebrews 11:7 · κόσμονBy faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.Hebrews 11:38 · κόσμος·(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.James 1:27 · κόσμου.¶Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.James 2:5 · κόσμῳHearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?James 3:6 · κόσμοςAnd the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.James 4:4 · κόσμου · κόσμου,Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.1 Peter 1:20 · κόσμου,who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,1 Peter 3:3 · κόσμος,Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;1 Peter 5:9 · κόσμῳwhom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.2 Peter 1:4 · κόσμῳwhereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.2 Peter 2:5 · κόσμου · κόσμῳand spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;2 Peter 2:20 · κόσμουFor if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.2 Peter 3:6 · κόσμοςby which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:1 John 2:2 · κόσμου.and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.1 John 2:15 · κόσμον · κόσμῳ. · κόσμον,Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.1 John 2:16 · κόσμῳ, · κόσμουFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.1 John 2:17 · κόσμοςAnd the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.1 John 3:1 · κόσμοςBehold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.1 John 3:13 · κόσμος.Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.1 John 3:17 · κόσμουBut whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?1 John 4:1 · κόσμον.Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.1 John 4:3 · κόσμῳand every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.1 John 4:4 · κόσμῳ.Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.1 John 4:5 · κόσμου · κόσμου · κόσμοςThey are of the world: therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.1 John 4:9 · κόσμονHerein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.1 John 4:14 · κόσμου.And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.1 John 4:17 · κόσμῳHerein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.1 John 5:4 · κόσμον· · κόσμον,For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.1 John 5:5 · κόσμονAnd who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?1 John 5:19 · κόσμοςWe know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.2 John 1:7 · κόσμον,For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.Revelation 11:15 · κόσμουAnd the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.Revelation 13:8 · κόσμου.¶And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.Revelation 17:8 · κόσμου,The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.