Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
Hastings
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 have written unto you, fathers, that ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, that ye are strong and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
15 Do not love
Phrases
Cross References
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.
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. Ye cannot serve God and riches.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 John 3:17
But whosoever has this world's goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?
1 John 4:5
They are of the world; therefore, they speak of the world, and the world hears 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 hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Ephesians 2:2
in which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the will of the prince of the power of this air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience,
Colossians 3:1-2
If ye then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God.
1 John 5:4-5
For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:10
He that believes in the Son of God has the witness of God in himself; he that does not believe God has made God a liar; because he does not believe the witness that God has testified of his Son.