God’s Word Interprets God’s Word

1 John 2:15-16-17

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

because all that which is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world is passing away, and its lust. But the one doing the will of God abides forever.

Matthew 4:8

Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and he showed to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

Matthew 4:9

And he said to Him. I will give all these things to You if falling down, You will worship me.

Comment – Sin entered the world by one man, Adam. Romans 5:12 Adam gave his allegiance to the Devil instead of God. Adam didn’t maintain his failsafe frame of reference, God’s Word. Genesis 3:17

but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you may not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.

Consequently, all the kingdoms of the world are characterized by the desires of their father, John 8:44, Romans 1,2,3 The Devil. Genesis 3:6

Matthew 16:26

For what will a man be benefited if he should gain the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?

Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world from its offenses! It is a necessity for the offenses to come, yet woe to that man through whom the offense comes!

Mark 4:19

and the cares of this age ( The World KJV), and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts about other things entering in, they choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, yet damage his soul?

Luke 9:25

For what is a man profited gaining the whole world but destroying himself or suffering loss?

Luke 16:8

And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, because he acted prudently. For the sons of this age ( The world KJV) are more prudent than the sons of light themselves are in their generation.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, yet the world did not know Him.

John 3:19

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the Light, for their works were evil.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I witness about it, that its works are evil.

John 8:23

And He said to them, You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, that the ones who do not see may see, and they who see may become blind.

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world shall be cast out.

John 14:17

the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He abides with you and shall be in you.

John 14:27

I leave peace to you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be timid.

John 14:30

I shall no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

John 15:18

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it has hated you.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

John 16:7

But I tell you the truth, it is advantageous for you that I should go; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.

John 16:8

And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.

John 16:9

Concerning sin, because they do not believe into Me;

John 16:10

and concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you no longer see Me;

John 16:11

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and will lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be grieved, but your grief will become joy.

John 16:33

I have spoken these things to you that you may have peace in Me. You have distress in the world; but be encouraged, I have overcome the world.

John 17:6

I revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me; and they have kept Your Word.

John 17:9

I pray concerning them; I do not pray concerning the world, but for those whom You gave to Me, for they are Yours.

John 17:14-15

I have given them Your Word, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

I do not pray that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from evil.

John 17:23

I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in one; and that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them, even as You loved Me.

John 17:25

Righteous Father, indeed the world did not know You, but I knew You; and these have known that You sent Me.

John 18:36

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would have fought that I might not be delivered up to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.

John 18:37

Then Pilate said to Him, Are you really a king? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I might witness to the Truth. Everyone being of the Truth hears My voice.

Acts 17:30-31

Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,

because He set a day in which “He is going to judge the habitable world in righteousness,” by a Man whom He appointed; having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead. Psa. 9:8

Psalms 9:8

And He shall judge the world in righteousness; Romans 2:16 He shall judge the peoples in uprightness.

Romans 5:12

Because of this, even as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this age ( this world KJV) , but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the lawyer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose the foolish things of the world that the wise might be put to shame, and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things.

1 Corinthians 1:28

And God chose the low-born of the world, and the despised, and the things that are not, so that He might bring to nothing the things that are,

1 Corinthians 2:6

But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this age ( this world KJV), nor of the rulers of this age ( this world KJV), those being brought to nothing

1 Corinthians 2:8

which none of the rulers of this age ( this world KJV) has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

Question: Why didn’t God shine into the hearts, of the rulers and all the people that contributed to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, God the Son incarnate, the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ?

Answer: God predetermined before creation all the actions of the wicked people that contributed to the crucifixion in order to ensure and secure the salvation of the people He unconditionally chose to save from before the foundation of the world through the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ.

The substitutionary perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ was completed in thought, word and deed for His people. His atoning shed blood, payment for their sins, and His imputed righteous were both charged to their account; making God just, justifier and a savior. Jesus Christ could not fail because He is the God/Man mediator between God and Man. God always fulfills all His promises because He predetermined all things Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 55:11,Job 23:13

All God’s people will come to the knowledge of the truth sometime between conception and death by God worked and given faith in this Gospel of Grace. Luke 1:41, Luke 18:13, John 6:29

Acts 4:26-28, 2:23, Matthew 1:21-23, Revelation 5:9,7:9, Ephesians 1:4,11, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, Philippians 1:6,2:13, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Ephesians 2:8-10, Romans 8:28-30, Romans 1:16-17, Romans 3:9-31, Romans 4:3-8, John 10:15, John 6:37-39,44,65

Comment – The Saving knowledge given and revealed by God of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that God promises to save His people from their sins, who were unconditionally chosen from every nation, even tribes, languages and peoples before the foundation of the world, conditioned solely on Jesus Christ’s atoning shed blood 🩸 and His imputed righteousness alone unto belief by God given and worked faith, is the most important knowledge ever received.

You will know you have no righteousness of your own and only God is good and only by His mercy through Jesus Christ does God become just, justifier and a savior of His promised people.

John 6:47

Truly, truly, I say to you, the one believing into Me has everlasting life.

Romans 10:1-4, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 9:15,18, 2 Corinthians 4:6, John 6:29, Luke 18:13, Mark 10:18, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 45:24, Romans 4:3-8, Romans 3:9-31, Hebrews 9:22, Romans 8:8-9, Proverbs 15:8, John 3:3,5,8, Matthew 11:27-30, John 6:37-39, Matthew 1:21-23, Proverbs 15:8

1 Corinthians 2:12

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself, if anyone thinks to be wise among you in this age ( this world KjV), let him become foolish, that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, “He takes the wise in their own craftiness.” Job 5:13

1 Corinthians 4:13

defamed, we entreat. we have become as filth of the world, dirt wiped off by all until now.

1 Corinthians 5:9-10

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators;

and not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or with plunderers, or with idolaters, since then you must go out of the world.

1 Corinthians 6:2

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of small judgments?

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Or do you not know that unjust ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

nor thieves, nor covetous ones, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor plunderers shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 1,2,3

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

But also if our gospel is being hidden, it has been hidden in those being lost,

in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the brightness of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

2 Corinthians 5:19

whereas God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation in us.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted. But the grief of the world works out death.

Galatians1:4

who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age ( evil World) according to the will of our God and Father,

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when we were infants, we were under the elements of the world, being enslaved.

Galatians 6:14

But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 1:4

according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and without blemish before Him in love,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you then walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

Ephesians 6:12

because we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world’s rulers, of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenlies.

Colossians 2:8

Watch that there not be one robbing you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Timothy 1:15

Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

1 John 5:4

Because everything having been born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory overcoming the world, our faith.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent being called Devil, and, Satan; he deceiving the whole habitable world was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 20:10

And the Devil leading them astray was thrown into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet were . And they were tormented day and night forever and ever.

Highlights, italics added for emphasis

Scripture Literal Translation Jay P Green 1993