1 John 2:15

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.

Love not

If

Matthew 6:24

Luke 16:13

James 4:4

The love

1 John 3:17

General references

Bible References

Love not

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

If

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

The love

But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

General references

"'All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.