1 John 2:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And do not be conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
  • Col 3:1-2 : 1 If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at 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 kinds of evil: which while some coveted after, they have strayed 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. You cannot serve God and wealth.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you were 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 hates you.
  • 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who believes 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 still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 In which in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:
  • 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he does not believe the testimony that God has given of His Son.

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    16For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world.

    17And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  • John 15:17-19
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    17These things I command you, that you love one another.

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

    19If you were 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 hates you.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

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    13I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

    14I 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 wicked one.

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    10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

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

    12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

    13Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.

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    3And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and even now it is already in the world.

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    5They are from the world; therefore they speak 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, even 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, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

    8Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

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    17But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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    16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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    31and those who use this world, as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.

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    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

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    11Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.

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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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    15This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

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    24Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

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    19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

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    14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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    19This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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    16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

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    9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; continue in my love.

  • 1 Cor 2:12
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    12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

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    5And now I urge you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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    16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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    11But you, O man of God, flee these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.

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    25He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.