1 John 2:15

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Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

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  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing, and perfect will.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him?
  • Col 3:1-2 : 1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on the things above, not on the things on the earth.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
  • Luke 16:13 : 13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
  • 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 For am I now trying to win the approval of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient.
  • 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within them. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about His Son.

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  • 1 John 2:16-17
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    16For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

    17The world is passing away, along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

  • John 15:17-19
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    17This is my command: Love one another.

    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

    19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • 1 John 2:13-14
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    13I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

    14I am writing to you, dear children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known 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.

  • 1 John 3:10-14
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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

    12Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

    13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 John 4:3-5
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    3And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.

    4You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

    5They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

    8Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

    9Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 1 John 3:17-18
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    17But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

  • John 17:16
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    16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31And those who use the things of this world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

  • 1 John 4:7-8
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    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  • 1 John 4:20
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    20If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates their brother or sister, they are a liar. For the one who does not love their brother or sister whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.

  • John 14:24
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    24The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

  • John 5:42
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    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

  • Jas 3:15
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    15This is not the wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

  • 1 John 2:24
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    24As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

  • 1 John 5:19
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    19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

  • John 3:19
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    19This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

  • 1 John 4:16-18
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    16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.

    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.

  • John 15:9
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    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.

  • 1 Cor 2:12
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    12Now, we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

  • Rom 12:2
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    2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing, and perfect will.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

  • 2 John 1:5
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    5And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I am writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

  • Jas 1:16
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    16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters.

  • 1 Tim 6:11
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    11But you, man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

  • John 12:25
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    25The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.