Verse 5

Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.

Referenced Verses

• Job 20:5 : 5 that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
• Ps 73:19 : 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
• Matt 4:8 : 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.
• Matt 24:14 : 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
• Mark 4:8-9 : 8 But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.” 9 And he said,“Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”
• 1 Cor 7:31 : 31 those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
• 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
• Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
• Eph 6:12 : 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
• 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.