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 took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.Matthew 5:14 · κόσμου·You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.Matthew 13:38 · κόσμος·the 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.Matthew 16:26 · κόσμονFor 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?Matthew 18:7 · κόσμῳ“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!Matthew 24:21 · κόσμουfor then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.Matthew 25:34 · κόσμου.Then 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;Matthew 26:13 · κόσμῳ,Most 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 8:36 · κόσμονFor what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?Mark 14:9 · κόσμον,Most 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.”Luke 9:25 · κόσμονFor what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits 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 the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.John 1:9 · κόσμον.The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.John 1:10 · κόσμῳ · κόσμος · κόσμοςHe was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.John 1:29 · κόσμου.The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!John 3:16 · κόσμον,For 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 3:17 · κόσμον · κόσμον, · κόσμοςFor God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.John 3:19 · κόσμον,This 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 4:42 · κόσμουThey 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 6:14 · κόσμον.¶When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”John 6:33 · κόσμῳ.¶For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”John 6:51 · κόσμουI 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 7:4 · κόσμῳ.For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”John 7:7 · κόσμοςThe world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.John 8:12 · κόσμου.Again, 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 8:23 · κόσμου · κόσμουHe said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You 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. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”John 9:5 · κόσμῳ · κόσμου.While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”John 9:39 · κόσμονJesus 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 10:36 · κόσμον,do 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 11:9 · κόσμουJesus 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 11:27 · κόσμονShe 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 12:19 · κόσμοςThe Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”John 12:25 · κόσμῳHe who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.John 12:31 · κόσμου · κόσμουNow is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.John 12:46 · κόσμονI have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.John 12:47 · κόσμον · κόσμον.If 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 13:1 · κόσμου · κόσμῳNow 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 14:17 · κόσμοςthe 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 14:19 · κόσμοςYet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.John 14:22 · κόσμῳ;¶Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”John 14:27 · κόσμοςPeace 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 14:30 · κόσμουI will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.John 14:31 · κόσμοςBut 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 15:18 · κόσμοςIf the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.John 15:19 · κόσμου · κόσμος · κόσμου · κόσμου, · κόσμος.¶If 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 16:8 · κόσμονWhen he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;John 16:11 · κόσμουabout judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.John 16:20 · κόσμοςMost 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 16:21 · κόσμον.¶A 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 16:28 · κόσμον· · κόσμονI came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”John 16:33 · κόσμῳ · κόσμον.¶I 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 17:5 · κόσμονNow, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.John 17:6 · κόσμου·I 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 17:9 · κόσμουI pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.John 17:11 · κόσμῳ, · κόσμῳI 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 17:13 · κόσμῳ,But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.John 17:14 · κόσμος · κόσμου · κόσμου.I 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 17:15 · κόσμουI pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would 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 you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.John 17:21 · κόσμοςthat 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 17:23 · κόσμοςI 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 17:24 · κόσμου.Father, 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 17:25 · κόσμοςRighteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.John 18:20 · κόσμῳ.Jesus 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 18:36 · κόσμου · κόσμουJesus 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 18:37 · κόσμονPilate 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 21:25 · κόσμονThere 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 17:24 · κόσμονThe 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,Romans 1:8 · κόσμῳ·First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, 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;May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?Romans 3:19 · κόσμοςNow 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.Romans 4:13 · κόσμουFor the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.Romans 5:12 · κόσμονTherefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.Romans 5:13 · κόσμῳ,For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged 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 fullness?Romans 11:15 · κόσμου,For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?1 Corinthians 1:20 · κόσμουWhere 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 Corinthians 1:21 · κόσμοςFor 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 Corinthians 1:27 · κόσμου · κόσμουbut 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 Corinthians 1:28 · κόσμουand 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 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 by God.1 Corinthians 3:19 · κόσμουFor the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken 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 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 Corinthians 4:13 · κόσμουBeing defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.1 Corinthians 5:10 · κόσμου · κόσμουyet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.1 Corinthians 6:2 · κόσμον · κόσμος,Don’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 Corinthians 7:31 · κόσμον · κόσμουand those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.1 Corinthians 7:33 · κόσμου,but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.1 Corinthians 7:34 · κόσμου,There 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 Corinthians 8:4 · κόσμῳTherefore 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 Corinthians 11:32 · κόσμῳBut when we are judged, we are punished by 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 sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.2 Corinthians 1:12 · κόσμῳ,For 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 Corinthians 5:19 · κόσμονnamely, 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 Corinthians 7:10 · κόσμουFor godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.Galatians 4:3 · κόσμουSo we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.Galatians 6:14 · κόσμος · κόσμῳ.But 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.Ephesians 1:4 · κόσμουeven as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;Ephesians 2:2 · κόσμουin 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;Ephesians 2:12 · κόσμῳ·that 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.Philippians 2:15 · κόσμῳ,that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,Colossians 1:6 · κόσμῳwhich 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;Colossians 2:8 · κόσμουBe 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.Colossians 2:20 · κόσμου, · κόσμῳIf you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,1 Timothy 1:15 · κόσμονThe saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.1 Timothy 3:16 · κόσμῳ,Without 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 Timothy 6:7 · κόσμον,For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.Hebrews 4:3 · κόσμουFor 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.Hebrews 9:26 · κόσμου,or 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.Hebrews 10:5 · κόσμονTherefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me;Hebrews 11:7 · κόσμονBy 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.Hebrews 11:38 · κόσμος·(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, 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 unstained by the world.James 2:5 · κόσμῳListen, 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?James 3:6 · κόσμοςAnd 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.James 4:4 · κόσμου · κόσμου,You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.1 Peter 1:20 · κόσμου,who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,1 Peter 3:3 · κόσμος,Let 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 Peter 5:9 · κόσμῳWithstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.2 Peter 1:4 · κόσμῳby 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 Peter 2:5 · κόσμου · κόσμῳand 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 Peter 2:20 · κόσμουFor 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 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 atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.1 John 2:15 · κόσμον · κόσμῳ. · κόσμον,Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.1 John 2:16 · κόσμῳ, · κόσμουFor 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 John 2:17 · κόσμοςThe world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.1 John 3:1 · κόσμοςBehold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on 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 John 3:13 · κόσμος.Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.1 John 3:17 · κόσμουBut whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?1 John 4:1 · κόσμον.Beloved, 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 John 4:3 · κόσμῳand 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 John 4:4 · κόσμῳ.You 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 John 4:5 · κόσμου · κόσμου · κόσμοςThey are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.1 John 4:9 · κόσμονBy 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 John 4:14 · κόσμου.We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.1 John 4:17 · κόσμῳIn 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 John 5:4 · κόσμον· · κόσμον,For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.1 John 5:5 · κόσμονWho is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?1 John 5:19 · κόσμοςWe know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.2 John 1:7 · κόσμον,For 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.Revelation 11:15 · κόσμουThe 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!”Revelation 13:8 · κόσμου.¶All 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.Revelation 17:8 · κόσμου,The 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.