1 John 2:15 Parallel Translations

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

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

DBY:

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

ERV:

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.

WEY:

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.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

YLT:

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,

1 John 2:15 Cross References

XREF:

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:15 {14} Love not the {l} world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the {m} love of the Father is not in him.
(14) The world which is full of wicked desires, lusts or pleasures, and pride, is utterly hated by our heavenly Father. Therefore the Father and the world cannot be loved together: and this admonition is very necessary for young and growing youth.
(l) He speaks of the world, as it agrees not with the will of God, for otherwise God is said to love the world with an infinite love, Joh 3:16 that is to say, those whom he chose out of the world.
(m) Wherewith the Father is loved.

PNT:

2:15 Love not the world. An exhortation to all three classes just named in 1Jo 2:13,14. The love of the world and of God are not reconcilable. See PNT Jas 4:4.
Neither the things [that are] in the world. The ways of the world, its passions, pleasures and pursuits.

WES:

2:15 To you all, whether fathers, young men, or little children, I say, Love not the world - Pursue your victory by overcoming the world. If any man love the world - Seek happiness in visible things, he does not love God.

MHC:

2:15-17 The things of the world may be desired and possessed for the uses and purposes which God intended, and they are to be used by his grace, and to his glory; but believers must not seek or value them for those purposes to which sin abuses them. The world draws the heart from God; and the more the love of the world prevails, the more the love of God decays. The things of the world are classed according to the three ruling inclinations of depraved nature. 1. The lust of the flesh, of the body: wrong desires of the heart, the appetite of indulging all things that excite and inflame sensual pleasures. 2. The lust of the eyes: the eyes are delighted with riches and rich possessions; this is the lust of covetousness. 3. The pride of life: a vain man craves the grandeur and pomp of a vain-glorious life; this includes thirst after honour and applause. The things of the world quickly fade and die away; desire itself will ere long fail and cease, but holy affection is not like the lust that passes away. The love of God shall never fail. Many vain efforts have been made to evade the force of this passage by limitations, distinctions, or exceptions. Many have tried to show how far we may be carnally-minded, and love the world; but the plain meaning of these verses cannot easily be mistaken. Unless this victory over the world is begun in the heart, a man has no root in himself, but will fall away, or at most remain an unfruitful professor. Yet these vanities are so alluring to the corruption in our hearts, that without constant watching and prayer, we cannot escape the world, or obtain victory over the god and prince of it.

CONC:

Anyone Anything Father's Heart Isn't Love Loves Loveth

Father's Heart Love World

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