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 be of the world, and therefore speak they of the world, and the world attendeth unto them.
1 John 5:4
For all that is born of God, overcometh the world. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. Howbeit, because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore hateth you the world.
Romans 12:2
And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.
Galatians 1:10
Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.
Ephesians 2:2
in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,
Colossians 3:1
If ye be then risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the righthand of God.
1 Timothy 6:10
For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows.

If

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God, and mammon."
James 4:4
Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

The love

1 John 3:17
He, then, that hath the substance of the world, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him?

General references

Leviticus 11:20
And all fowls that creep and go upon all fours shall be an abomination unto you.
Matthew 6:19
"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mark 4:7
And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, so that it gave no fruit.
Luke 14:33
So likewise, none of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, can be my disciple.