Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
New American Standard Bible
Do not love
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Do not love the world
International Standard Version
Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.
A Conservative Version
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
An Understandable Version
You should not love the [godless] world, nor the things [i.e., the materialistic values] that are part of this [present] age. If any person loves the world, a [genuine] love for the Father is not in his heart.
Anderson New Testament
Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Bible in Basic English
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.
Darby Translation
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Godbey New Testament
Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:
Goodspeed New Testament
Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,
John Wesley New Testament
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world: if any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Julia Smith Translation
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
King James 2000
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Modern King James verseion
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.
Moffatt New Testament
Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
Montgomery New Testament
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.
NET Bible
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
New Heart English Bible
Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.
Noyes New Testament
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Sawyer New Testament
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
The Emphasized Bible
Be not loving the world, nor yet the things that are in the world: if anyone be loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;
Webster
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Weymouth New Testament
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.
Williams New Testament
Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,
World English Bible
Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.
Worrell New Testament
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Worsley New Testament
Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world; for if any one love the world to excess, the love of the Father is not in him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Themes
Love » Who the love of the father is not in
Love » Those that love the world
Love to God » The love of the world is a proof of not having
Repression of evil » Seven evils to be repressed » Worldliness
Seven » Evils to be repressed » Worldliness
World » The world passing away
Interlinear
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Usage: 1032
References
Fausets
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Watsons
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 2:15
Prayers for 1 John 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Love The World
14 I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of lifeis not of the Father but is of the world.
Phrases
Cross References
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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 chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
1 John 4:5
They are of the world and therefore speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.
Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 3:1-2
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
1 John 5:4-5
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the worldour faith.
1 John 5:10
He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given of his Son.