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
The love
General references
Bible References
Love not
1 John 4:5
They are children of the world; this is why they speak what the world inspires, and why the world listens to them.
1 John 5:4
for every child of God continues to conquer the world. Our faith is the victory that has conquered the world.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.
Romans 12:2
Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now trying to win men's favor, or God's? Or, am I trying to be pleasing to men? If I were still trying to be pleasing to men, I would not be a slave of Christ at all.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,
Colossians 3:1
So if you have been raised to life in fellowship with Christ, keep on seeking the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some men in reaching after riches have wandered from the faith and pierced their hearts with many a pang.
If
Matthew 6:24
No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.
Luke 16:13
No house-servant can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
James 4:4
You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.
The love
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?
General references
Matthew 6:19
"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.
Mark 4:7
Some fell among the thorn seed, and the thorns grew up and choked them out and they yielded no grain.
Luke 14:33
"Just so, no one of you who does not forsake everything that he has, can be a disciple of mine.