1 John 2:15

Translations

Modern

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Traditional

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Literal

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone should love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Latin

Nolite diligere mundum, neque ea quæ in mundo sunt. Si quis diligit mundum, non est caritas Patris in eo:

Original

Greek

English

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Notes

1 John 2:15–17

The world is a morally evil system that is under the influence of Satan and is opposed to God and to Christ’s kingdom on this earth (2:16; 3:1; 4:4; 5:19; John 12:31; 15:18; Ephesians 6:11–12; James 4:4). The world appeals to people’s fleshly desires and turns them away from God. People who belong to the world in this way need God to rescue them from it.

Theme notes and profiles

Belonging to Christ Complete Dedication Complete Destruction Material Reward The World The Written Word

Related verses

James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Colossians 3:1–2
Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
1 John 5:4–5
…because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
1 John 3:17
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
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.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
1 John 4:5
They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

Glossary

Book of Revelation First Letter of John Shekinah World

Topics

Attraction Bad Company Being Greedy Being Like the World Breaking Bad Habits Commandments: Other Apostles: Precepts of, Explicitly Stated or Implied in Didactic Epistles Covetousness: General Scriptures Concerning Culture Ear Piercings Evil in the World Fame Financial Problems Games of Chance God: Fatherhood of Gratification Having a Bad Day High School Problems Hobbies How we Dress Little Eyes Lot's Wife Lotteries Love of Man for God Love to God: The Love of the World is a Proof of not Having Lukewarm Christians Media Money Problems Not of This World Obsession Our Feelings Possessions Practical Christian Living Psychology Putting the Past Behind Repetitive Sin Righteous: Described Self Gratification Self-seeking Shopping Sins of the Flesh

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