kosmos denotes the created and inhabited sphere, often its people or the order portrayed as opposed to God.

The term most often denotes the human sphere collectively: people who do not know or hate believers, hear speakers from that sphere, or stand in need of reconciliation and salvation. It also names the created order, the order characterized by desires and evil, and the sphere of ordinary possessions or concerns.

1. Humanity and the inhabited human sphere · dominant

   The nominative form is the subject that does not know believers in 1 John 3:1, hates them in 1 John 3:13, and listens to speakers described as from it in 1 John 4:5. Accusative and genitive forms occur where the APB renders reconciliation of a world and sins of the whole world in 2 Corinthians 5:19 and 1 John 2:2.

   1 John 3:11 John 3:131 John 4:52 Corinthians 5:191 John 2:21 Timothy 1:15
2. Order opposed to the Father or under evil · common

   In 1 John 2:15 the accusative form is what must not be loved, while 1 John 2:16 places fleshly desire, desire of the eyes, and boasting within it. In 1 John 5:19, the nominative form is said to lie in the evil one; 1 John 2:17 says that it and its desire are passing away.

   1 John 2:151 John 2:161 John 2:171 John 5:191 John 5:41 Corinthians 2:12
3. Created order and setting of life · occasional

   In Acts 17:24, the accusative form is the object of God's making, together with everything in it. The nominative form is the entity that perished in the flood in 2 Peter 3:6, and the genitive form marks the foundation before which the cited person was foreknown in 1 Peter 1:20.

   Acts 17:242 Peter 3:61 Peter 1:201 Timothy 6:7Hebrews 10:51 Corinthians 14:10
4. Sphere of material use and domestic concerns · rare

   In 1 Corinthians 7:31, the accusative form is used in the clause about using it without using it up, and its form is said to be passing away. Genitive forms qualify concerns connected with pleasing a spouse in 1 Corinthians 7:33 and 1 Corinthians 7:34; 1 John 3:17 refers to having the life of this sphere while seeing a brother in need.

   1 Corinthians 7:311 Corinthians 7:331 Corinthians 7:341 John 3:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB repeatedly presents the term with “world,” including clauses about creation, human response, judgment, and passing away. It also uses phrases such as “worldly things” and “life of the world”; Those renderings confirm the clauses rather than fix a separate lexical sense.