1 John 2:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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,

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 `None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?
  • Col 3:1-2 : 1 If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, 2 the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;
  • Luke 16:13 : 13 `No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'
  • John 15:19 : 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
  • 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith; 5 who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
  • 1 John 4:5 : 5 They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 2:16-17
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    16because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

    17and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

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

    18if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

    19if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

  • 1 John 2:13-14
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    13I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:

    14I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

  • 1 John 3:10-14
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    10In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

    11because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

    12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

    13Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

    14we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

  • 1 John 4:3-5
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    3and every spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not; and this is that of the antichrist, which ye heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already.

    4Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who `is' in you, than he who is in the world.

    5They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

  • 2 John 1:7-9
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    7because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.

    8See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

    9every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

  • 1 John 3:17-18
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    17and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

    18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

  • John 17:16
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    16`Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31and those using this world, as not using `it' up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

  • 1 John 4:7-8
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    7Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

    8he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

  • 1 John 4:20
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    20if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

  • John 14:24
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    24he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

  • John 5:42
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    42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

  • 1 John 4:11-12
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    11Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

    12God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

  • Jas 3:15
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    15this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

  • 1 John 2:24
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    24Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

  • 1 John 5:19
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    19we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;

  • John 3:19
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    19`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

  • 1 John 4:16-18
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    16and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

    17In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we -- we also are in this world;

    18fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

  • John 15:9
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    9According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

  • 1 Cor 2:12
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    12And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that `is' of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

  • Rom 12:2
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    2and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

  • 2 John 1:5
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    5and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

  • Jas 1:16
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    16Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

  • 1 Tim 6:11
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    11and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

  • John 12:25
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    25he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;