Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour.
1 John 2:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour.
‘No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
No servant can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.’
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him #– #how does God’s love reside in him?
They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about his Son.