1 John 2:15
New International Version
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.

New Living Translation
Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

English Standard Version
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.

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

Berean Literal Bible
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,

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

NASB 1995
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

NASB 1977
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Amplified Bible
Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Christian Standard Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not love the world, neither the things that are in it, for whoever loves the world does not have the love of The Father in him.

Contemporary English Version
Don't love the world or anything that belongs to the world. If you love the world, you cannot love the Father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't love the world and what it offers. Those who love the world don't have the Father's love in them.

Good News Translation
Do not love the world or anything that belongs to the world. If you love the world, you do not love the Father.

International Standard Version
Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

Literal Standard Version
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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

New American Bible
Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

NET Bible
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,

New Revised Standard Version
Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world;

New Heart English Bible
Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Weymouth New Testament
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

World English Bible
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Young's Literal Translation
Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Do Not Love the World
14I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.…

Cross References
Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

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.

James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

Love not.

1 John 4:5
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

1 John 5:4,5,10
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith…

John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

If.

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

the love.

1 John 3:17
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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1 John 2
1. He comforts them against the sins of infirmity.
3. Rightly to know God is to keep his commandments;
9. to love our brothers;
15. and not to love the world.
18. We must beware of antichrists;
20. from whose deceits the godly are safe, preserved by perseverance in faith, and holiness of life.














Verses 15-17. - Secondly, walking in the light excludes all love of the world. This is another form of darkness. Verse 15. - Love not the world. Obviously, both "love" and "the world" are used in a different sense in John 3:16, where it is said that "God loved the world." The one love is selfish, the other unselfish. In the one case "the world" means the sinful elements of human life, in the other the human race. It is most important to distinguish the different meanings of κόσμος in the New Testament. Connected with κόμειν and comere, it means

(1) ornament (1 Peter 3:3);

(2) the ordered universe, mundus (Romans 1:20);

(3) the earth (John 1:9); . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
{Do} not
Μὴ (Mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

love
ἀγαπᾶτε (agapate)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world
κόσμον (kosmon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

[or]
μηδὲ (mēde)
Conjunction
Strong's 3366: And not, not even, neither�nor. From me and de; but not, not even; in a continued negation, nor.

anything
τὰ (ta)
Article - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world.
κόσμῳ (kosmō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

If
ἐάν (ean)
Conjunction
Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.

anyone
τις (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

loves
ἀγαπᾷ (agapa)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world,
κόσμον (kosmon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

love
ἀγάπη (agapē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.

of the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Father
Πατρὸς (Patros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

is
ἔστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

not
οὐκ (ouk)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

him.
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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