1 John 2:15

First Nations Version

Do not love the ways of this world, nor the things you can get from the world. When you love the world, it shows that the love of our Father the Great Spirit is not alive in you.

Cross References

James 4:4

You are unfaithful people! You must know that if you become friends with the ways of this world, you make yourself an enemy of the Great Spirit.

Romans 12:2

Do not permit the ways of this world to mold and shape you. Instead, let Creator change you from the inside out, in the way a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. He will do this by giving you a new way of thinking, seeing, and walking. Then you will know for sure what the Great Spirit wants for you, things that are good, that make the heart glad, and that help you to walk the path of becoming a mature and true human being.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can be loyal to two rival chiefs. You will have to choose between them. You will either hate one chief and love the other, or honor one and resent the other. You cannot be loyal to the Great Provider and to possessions at the same time.

Luke 16:13

“No one can be loyal to two rival chiefs. He will have to choose between them, for either he will hate one chief and love the other, or he will honor one and resent the other. You cannot be loyal to the Great Provider and to possessions at the same time.”

John 15:19

The ones who walk in the ways of this world love the ones who do the same but look down on and hate the ones who do not. I have chosen you to walk away from the ways of this world, on a different path, and that is why the world will hate you.

1 John 3:17

If someone who has many possessions sees another in need and shows no pity, how can Creator’s love remain in that person?

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of possessions is the root of many evil, thorny branches. Some, who have made possessions their aim in life, have walked away from the good road and have been pierced by thorns that bring them much pain and sorrow.

Galatians 1:10

Do these words sound as if I am seeking honor from human beings or from the Great Spirit? Do you think I am trying to please human beings? If that were true, then I would not be a willing servant of the Chosen One.

1 John 4:5

These false prophets are of this world, so they speak the way the world speaks, and the world listens.

Ephesians 2:2

Our broken ways caused us to miss the mark and wander from the good path, following the worthless ways of this world. We all once walked the dark path of the evil one who rules the spiritual atmosphere of this world, that evil spirit who is at work in human beings who have lost their way.

1 John 5:10

The ones who trust in the Son of the Great Spirit have accepted this truth in their inner beings. But those who do not trust in him are making Creator out to be a liar, because they do not believe he has told the truth about his Son.

Matthew 4:8

Once more the evil trickster took him to a high mountain and showed him all the great nations of the world with their power and beauty.

James 1:27

But the one whose spirituality is pure and spotless before our Father the Great Spirit takes care of widows and orphans, and keeps himself free from the evil ways of this world.