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 doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to 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 upon a mount is not able to be hid;Matthew 13:38 · κόσμος·and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,Matthew 16:26 · κόσμονfor what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?Matthew 18:7 · κόσμῳ‘Woe to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!Matthew 24:21 · κόσμουfor there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.Matthew 25:34 · κόσμου.‘Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;Matthew 26:13 · κόσμῳ,Verily I say to you, Wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this one did shall also be spoken of—for a memorial of her.’Mark 8:36 · κόσμονfor what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?Mark 14:9 · κόσμον,Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of—for a memorial of her.’Luke 9:25 · κόσμονfor what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?Luke 11:50 · κόσμουthat the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;Luke 12:30 · κόσμουfor all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;John 1:9 · κόσμον.He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;John 1:10 · κόσμῳ · κόσμος · κόσμοςin the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:John 1:29 · κόσμου.on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, ‘Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;John 3:16 · κόσμον,for God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.John 3:17 · κόσμον · κόσμον, · κόσμοςFor God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;John 3:19 · κόσμον,‘And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;John 4:42 · κόσμουand said to the woman—‘No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world—the Christ.’John 6:14 · κόσμον.¶The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said—‘This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;’John 6:33 · κόσμῳ.¶for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.’John 6:51 · κόσμου‘I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live—to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.’John 7:4 · κόσμῳ.for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things—manifest thyself to the world;’John 7:7 · κόσμοςthe world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.John 8:12 · κόσμου.Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.’John 8:23 · κόσμου · κόσμουand he said to them, ‘Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;John 8:26 · κόσμον.many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I—what things I heard from Him—these I say to the world.’John 9:5 · κόσμῳ · κόσμου.when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.’John 9:39 · κόσμονAnd Jesus said, ‘For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.’John 10:36 · κόσμον,of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say—Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?John 11:9 · κόσμουJesus answered, ‘Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;John 11:27 · κόσμονbelievest thou this?’ she saith to him, ‘Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.’John 12:19 · κόσμοςthe Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, ‘Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.’John 12:25 · κόσμῳhe who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world—to life age-during shall keep it;John 12:31 · κόσμου · κόσμουnow is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;John 12:46 · κόσμονI a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me—in the darkness may not remain;John 12:47 · κόσμον · κόσμον.and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I—I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.John 13:1 · κόσμου · κόσμῳAnd before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who are in the world—to the end he loved them.John 14:17 · κόσμοςthe Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.John 14:19 · κόσμοςyet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;John 14:22 · κόσμῳ;¶Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), ‘Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?’John 14:27 · κόσμος‘Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;John 14:30 · κόσμουI will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;John 14:31 · κόσμοςbut that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.John 15:18 · κόσμοςif the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;John 15:19 · κόσμου · κόσμος · κόσμου · κόσμου, · κόσμος.¶if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not—but I chose out of the world—because of this the world hateth you.John 16:8 · κόσμονand having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;John 16:11 · κόσμουand concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.John 16:20 · κόσμοςverily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.John 16:21 · κόσμον.¶‘The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.John 16:28 · κόσμον· · κόσμονI came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.’John 16:33 · κόσμῳ · κόσμον.¶these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage—I have overcome the world.’John 17:5 · κόσμον‘And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;John 17:6 · κόσμου·I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;John 17:9 · κόσμου‘I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,John 17:11 · κόσμῳ, · κόσμῳand no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;John 17:13 · κόσμῳ,‘And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;John 17:14 · κόσμος · κόσμου · κόσμου.I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;John 17:15 · κόσμουI do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.John 17:16 · κόσμου · κόσμου.‘Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;John 17:18 · κόσμον, · κόσμον.as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;John 17:21 · κόσμοςthat they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, 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, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.John 17:24 · κόσμου.‘Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.John 17:25 · κόσμος‘Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,John 18:20 · κόσμῳ.Jesus answered him, ‘I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;John 18:36 · κόσμου · κόσμουJesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.’John 18:37 · κόσμονPilate, therefore, said to him, ‘Art thou then a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.’John 21:25 · κόσμονAnd there are also many other things—as many as Jesus did—which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.Acts 17:24 · κόσμον‘God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,Romans 1:8 · κόσμῳ·first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;Romans 1:20 · κόσμουfor the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead—to their being inexcusable;Romans 3:6 · κόσμον;let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?Romans 3:19 · κόσμοςAnd we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;Romans 4:13 · κόσμουFor not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;Romans 5:12 · κόσμονbecause of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;Romans 5:13 · κόσμῳ,for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;Romans 11:12 · κόσμουand if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?Romans 11:15 · κόσμου,for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception—if not life out of the dead?1 Corinthians 1:20 · κόσμουwhere is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?1 Corinthians 1:21 · κόσμοςfor, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.1 Corinthians 1:27 · κόσμου · κόσμουbut the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;1 Corinthians 1:28 · κόσμουand the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless—1 Corinthians 2:12 · κόσμουAnd we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,1 Corinthians 3:19 · κόσμουfor the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, ‘Who is taking 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 about to be—all are yours,1 Corinthians 4:9 · κόσμῳfor I think that God did set forth us the apostles last—as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;1 Corinthians 4:13 · κόσμουbeing spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become—of all things an offscouring—till now.1 Corinthians 5:10 · κόσμου · κόσμουand not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world—1 Corinthians 6:2 · κόσμον · κόσμος,have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?1 Corinthians 7:31 · κόσμον · κόσμουand those using this world, as not using it up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.1 Corinthians 7:33 · κόσμου,and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.1 Corinthians 7:34 · κόσμου,The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.1 Corinthians 8:4 · κόσμῳConcerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;1 Corinthians 11:32 · κόσμῳand being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;1 Corinthians 14:10 · κόσμῳ,There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,2 Corinthians 1:12 · κόσμῳ,For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;2 Corinthians 5:19 · κόσμονhow that God was in Christ—a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,2 Corinthians 7:10 · κόσμουfor the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,Galatians 4:3 · κόσμουso also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,Galatians 6:14 · κόσμος · κόσμῳ.And for me, let it not be—to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;Ephesians 1:4 · κόσμουaccording as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,Ephesians 2:2 · κόσμουin which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,Ephesians 2:12 · κόσμῳ·that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to 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, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,Colossians 1:6 · κόσμῳwhich is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;Colossians 2:8 · κόσμουSee that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,Colossians 2:20 · κόσμου, · κόσμῳIf, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?1 Timothy 1:15 · κόσμονstedfast is the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners—first of whom I am;1 Timothy 3:16 · κόσμῳ,and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety—God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!1 Timothy 6:7 · κόσμον,for nothing did we bring into the world—it is manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;Hebrews 4:3 · κόσμουfor we do enter into the rest—we who did believe, as He said, ‘So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest—;’ and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,Hebrews 9:26 · κόσμου,since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;Hebrews 10:5 · κόσμονWherefore, coming into the world, he saith, ‘Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,Hebrews 11:7 · κόσμονBy faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.Hebrews 11:38 · κόσμος·of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth;James 1:27 · κόσμου.¶religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation—unspotted to keep himself from the world.James 2:5 · κόσμῳHearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?James 3:6 · κόσμοςand the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.James 4:4 · κόσμου · κόσμου,Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.1 Peter 1:20 · κόσμου,foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,1 Peter 3:3 · κόσμος,whose adorning—let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,1 Peter 5:9 · κόσμῳwhom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.2 Peter 1:4 · κόσμῳthrough which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.2 Peter 2:5 · κόσμου · κόσμῳand the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,2 Peter 2:20 · κόσμουfor, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,2 Peter 3:6 · κόσμοςthrough which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;1 John 2:2 · κόσμου.and he—he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,1 John 2:15 · κόσμον · κόσμῳ. · κόσμον,Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,1 John 2:16 · κόσμῳ, · κόσμουbecause all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,1 John 2:17 · κόσμοςand the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain—to the age.1 John 3:1 · κόσμοςSee ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;1 John 3:13 · κόσμος.Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;1 John 3:17 · κόσμουand whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him?1 John 4:1 · κόσμον.Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;1 John 4:3 · κόσμῳand every spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not; and this is that of the antichrist, which ye heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already.1 John 4:4 · κόσμῳ.Ye—of God ye are, little children, and ye 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—of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;1 John 4:9 · κόσμονIn this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son—the only begotten—hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;1 John 4:14 · κόσμου.And we—we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son—Saviour of the world;1 John 4:17 · κόσμῳIn this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we—we also are in this world;1 John 5:4 · κόσμον· · κόσμον,because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world—our faith;1 John 5:5 · κόσμονwho is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?1 John 5:19 · κόσμοςwe have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;2 John 1:7 · κόσμον,because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.Revelation 11:15 · κόσμουAnd the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of the world did become those of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!’Revelation 13:8 · κόσμου.¶And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;Revelation 17:8 · κόσμου,‘The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.