Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The love

Bible References

Love not

1 John 4:5
They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 5:4
because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
Colossians 3:1
So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 6:10
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.

If

Matthew 6:24
“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.
Luke 16:13
No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”
James 4:4
Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

The love

1 John 3:17
If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need—how can God’s love reside in him?

General references

Leviticus 11:20
“All winged insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
Mark 4:7
Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce a crop.
Luke 14:33
In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not say good-bye to all his possessions cannot be My disciple.

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