The Tower of Babel

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

Who appointed him over the earth? Who put him in charge of the whole world?

Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.

This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

Therefore wait for me,” declares the Lord, “for the day I will stand up to testify. I have decided to assemble the nations, to gather the kingdoms and to pour out my wrath on them— all my fierce anger. The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger.

And they reported to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.”

The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world.

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?

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.

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.

The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.