1 John 2:15
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.
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Matthew 6:24No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
John 15:19If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
Galatians 1:10Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Colossians 3:1If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
James 4:4O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
1 John 4:5They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:13-18
Against the Love of the World. ( a. d. 80.) 12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the… Read the whole commentary →