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 of the world, therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
1 John 5:4
For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
John 15:19
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.
Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
Galatians 1:10
For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once 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;
Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

If

Matthew 6:24
No one 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 mammon.
Luke 16:13
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 mammon.
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

The love

1 John 3:17
But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

General references

Leviticus 11:20
Every flying swarming creature going on all four, it is an abomination to you.
Matthew 6:19
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
Mark 4:7
And another fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Luke 14:33
So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple.