taking.

Mark 4:8, 9
Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop--one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold." . . .

1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

Ephesians 2:2
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world's darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

1 John 2:15, 16
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. . . .

in.

Job 20:5
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Psalm 73:19
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

1 Corinthians 15:52
in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light and temporary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that far outweighs our troubles.