1 John 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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.

1 John 2:15 Cross References

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Luke 16:13

No slave can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

1 John 3:17

How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

1 John 4:5

They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.

1 John 5:10

Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.