The world as described in the New Testament is taken too lightly in practice so a clearer understanding is required. This New Testament concept has eternal impact for (at least) these reasons:

• it hinders or exhonorates one’s life at the final judgement seat when Jesus compares one’s detailed, life-long obedience to the standard of God’s will, law and love;
• it overlaps with other fundamental spiritual categories (e.g., human ontology, sin);
• this New Testament concept differs from popular and academic usage in the English language;
• it requires spiritual discernment to properly understand its biblical meaning.

This is my approach to the word ‘world’ in the King James Version New Testament:

• Methodology. The analytical tools used for this topic.
• Bibliometrics. Where and how many times is this word used in the biblical text
• Data. All verses that include the word ‘world’.
• Coding. Categorizing the data.
• Results. Full summary; Executive summary; Many topics
• Practicum. So what? What do we do with this knowledge?