Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 wrote to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, for ye are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and ye have conquered the evil. 15 Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Phrases
Cross References
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.
Romans 12:2
And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.
Matthew 6:24
None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and 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 now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
1 John 3:17
And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?
1 John 4:5
They are of the world: for this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two lords: for he will either hate one, and love the other; or he will hold firmly to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Ephesians 2:2
In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience:
Colossians 3:1-2
If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.
1 John 5:4-5
For everything begotten of God conquers the world: and this is the victory having conquered the world, our faith.
1 John 5:10
He believing in the Son of God has the testimony in himself: he not believing God has made him a liar; for he has not believed the testimony which God has testified of his Son.