"He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and on them he has set the world."
"The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein."
-- Psalm 24:1
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. ... If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof."
-- Psalm 50:7, 12
"The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them."
-- Psalm 89:11
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"Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out."
-- John 12:31
"I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me."
-- John 14:30
"[T]he ruler of this world is judged."
-- John 16:11
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
-- Ephesians 6:12
