- My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
- He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
- I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.
- This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God. - For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
- You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
- Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants. - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
- For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
- And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
- Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
- Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.
- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
- God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
- Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”