Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
1 John 2:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 Bible - Classic Edition Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Don’t love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. |
Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
No man 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. Ye cannot serve 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. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
For am I now persuading men, or God? or am I seeking to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
They are of the world: therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son.