Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
8 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “world” →
And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
