1 John 2:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ ἀγαπᾶτε τὸν κόσμον, μηδὲ τὰ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ. Ἐάν τις ἀγαπᾷ τὸν κόσμον, οὐκ ἔστιν ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Πατρὸς ἐν αὐτῷ.

Transliteration

Not agapate the kosmon, mēde the things in the kosmō. If anyone agapa the kosmon, not estin the agapē of the Patros in him.

Grammar Details

*agapate*: present, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - love/do not love
*kosmon*: accusative, masculine, singular - world/universe
*mēde*: negative conjunction - nor/and not/not even
*kosmō*: dative, masculine, singular - world/universe
*agapa*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - loves
*estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - is/exists
*agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
*Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - Father

Word Meanings

*agapate*: love/cherish/be devoted to
*kosmon*: world/universe/worldly system/mankind
*mēde*: nor/and not/not even/neither
*agapa*: loves/cherishes/is devoted to
*agapē*: love/affection/benevolence
*Patros*: Father/originator/source

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jas 4:4 : 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.
Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Matt 6:24 : 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.
1 John 3:17 : 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?
Col 3:1-2 : 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Luke 16:13 : 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.
John 15:19 : 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.
1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Gal 1:10 : 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Eph 2:2 : 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
1 John 4:5 : 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1 John 5:10 : 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

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