1 John 2:15
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.

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;

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.

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.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Love not.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: 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 which overcameth the world: Our faith. . . .

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

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

Colossians 3:1,2 Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. . . .

1 Timothy 6:10 For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

If.

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

James 4:4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.

the love.

1 John 3:17 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

Context
Do Not Love the World
14I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. I write unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. 15Love 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. 16For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:8
Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

James 1:27
Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

James 4:4
Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.

1 John 2:14
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