First of all, ¹  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people ¹  because ²  all sinned –

for before the law was given, ¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ²  when there is no law.

But I ask, have they ¹  not heard? ²  Yes, they have: ³  Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. ⁴ 

Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration ¹  bring?

God chose ¹  what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.” ¹ 

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.

For ¹  he chose us in Christ ²  before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished ³  in his sight ⁴  in love. ⁵ 

This saying ¹  is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” – and I am the worst of them! ² 

in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, ¹  whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world. ² 

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

Pure and undefiled religion before ¹  God the Father ²  is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Resist him, ¹  strong in your faith, because you know ²  that your brothers and sisters ³  throughout the world ⁴  are enduring ⁵  the same kinds of suffering. ⁶ 

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice ¹  for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world. ² 

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains ¹  forever.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, ¹  but test ²  the spirits ³  to determine ⁴  if they are from God, because many false prophets ⁵  have gone out into the world.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, ¹  because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.