For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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κόσμος
Vocabulary form:
kovsmoV, ou, -oJ
Definition:
world
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
186
GK:
3180
Root:
kosmo
Cognates:
Cosmology is the philosophical study of the universe.
Mnemonics:
Cosmic, man! Out of this world!
Mnemonic Singing:
Joy to the world, the Lord is come;
let earth receive her king.
Biblical Concordance
John 16:11 | in regard to judgment, because the ruler of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) has been condemned. |
John 16:20 | I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, and the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. |
John 16:21 | When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come; but when the baby is born, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a child has been born into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc). |
John 16:28 | I came forth from the Father and have entered into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc); now I am leaving the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) and going back to the Father.” |
John 16:33 | I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc) you will have tribulation, but take courage, I have conquered the world.” (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) |
John 17:5 | and now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory that I had with you before the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) began. |
John 17:6 | “I have made your name known to the men you gave me out of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc). They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. |
John 17:9 | I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), but for those whom you have given to me, for they are yours; |
John 17:11 | I am no longer in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), but they are in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), and I am on my way to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, the name that you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one. |
John 17:13 | But now I am on my way to you, and I am saying these things while still in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc) that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. |
John 17:14 | I have given them your word, and the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) has hated them because they do not belong to the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), just as I do not belong to the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc). |
John 17:15 | I am not asking that you take them out of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), but that you protect them from the evil one. |
John 17:16 | They do not belong to the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), just as I do not belong to the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc). |
John 17:18 | As you sent me into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc), I also have sent them into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc). |
John 17:21 | that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) may believe that you have sent me. |
John 17:23 | I in them and you in me, that they may be completely one, so that the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) may know that you sent me, and that you love them even as you love me. |
John 17:24 | Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, so they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc). |
John 17:25 | Righteous Father, although the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me. |
John 18:20 | Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc). I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. |
John 18:36 | Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc); if my kingdom were of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), my subjects would be fighting to prevent me from being handed over to the Jews; but as it is my kingdom is not from here.” |
John 18:37 | Therefore Pilate said to him, “So you are a king, then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king! The reason for which I was born and have come into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc), is that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” |
John 21:25 | Now there are many other things which Jesus did as well; if they were written down one after the other, I imagine that not even the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) itself could contain the books that would be written. |
Acts 17:24 | The God who made the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, |
Romans 1:8 | First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc). |
Romans 1:20 | Ever since the creation of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made. So they are without excuse. |
Romans 3:6 | By no means! For otherwise how could God judge the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc)? |
Romans 3:19 | Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) may be held accountable to God. |
Romans 4:13 | For the promise that he would be heir of (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. |
Romans 5:12 | Therefore, just as sin came into the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned —. |
Romans 5:13 | For sin was in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc) before the law was given, but sin is not charged when there is no law. |
Romans 11:12 | Now if their transgression means riches for the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! |
Romans 11:15 | For if their rejection leads to the reconciliation of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? |
1 Corinthians 1:20 | Where is the wise Where is the scholar? Where is the brilliant debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc)? |
1 Corinthians 1:21 | For since in the wisdom of God the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) did not come to know God through wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what we preach to save those who believe. |
1 Corinthians 1:27 | But God chose the foolish things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) to shame the strong; |
1 Corinthians 1:28 | God chose the things that the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) considers insignificant and contemptible, what is regarded as nothing, to render useless the things that are, |
1 Corinthians 2:12 | It was not the spirit of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) that we received, but the Spirit sent from God, that we might understand the gifts freely given to us by God. |
1 Corinthians 3:19 | For the wisdom of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) is folly with God. For it is written, “He traps the wise with their own craftiness.” |
1 Corinthians 3:22 | whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) or life or death or the present or the future — all are yours, |
1 Corinthians 4:9 | For it seems to me that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), both to angels and to men. |
1 Corinthians 4:13 | when slandered, we respond kindly. We have become, as it were, the scum of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), the refuse of all things, even now. |
1 Corinthians 5:10 | not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc). |
1 Corinthians 6:2 | Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc)? And if the world (kosmos | κόσμος | nom sg masc) is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try minor cases? |
1 Corinthians 7:31 | and those who use the world (kosmon | κόσμον | acc sg masc) as though they were not absorbed in it. For the form of this world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc) is passing away. |
1 Corinthians 7:33 | But a married man is concerned about the things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), how to please his wife, |
1 Corinthians 7:34 | and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world (kosmou | κόσμου | gen sg masc), how to please her husband. |
1 Corinthians 8:4 | Therefore, as to the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol has no genuine reality” and that “there is no God but one.” |
1 Corinthians 11:32 | But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being corrected by discipline, so that we will not be condemned along with the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc). |
1 Corinthians 14:10 | There are who-knows-how-many kinds of languages in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), and none is without meaning. |
2 Corinthians 1:12 | For our confidence is this, the testimony of our conscience, that with simplicity and sincerity like that of God, and not with earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world (kosmō | κόσμῳ | dat sg masc), and all the more toward you. |