Warning Against Loving the World
1 John 2:15-17
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1John.2.15 - Details
Original Text
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Parallels
- 1John.2.16 (verbal): Immediate continuation in the same letter listing the fleshly and worldly desires that explain what 'loving the world' means — a direct verbal and contextual parallel.
- James.4.4 (allusion): ‘Friendship with the world is enmity with God’—closely parallels the idea that loving the world places one outside the Father's love.
- Romans.12.2 (thematic): Commands believers not to be conformed to the world but transformed by God’s mind — shares the theme of rejecting worldly values and loyalties.
- Matthew.6.24 (thematic): ‘You cannot serve God and mammon’ — addresses divided allegiance and the impossibility of loving both God and worldly wealth/values, echoing 1 John’s warning.
- John.15.19 (thematic): ‘If you were of the world, the world would love its own’ — highlights the oppositional relationship between the believer and the world, similar to 1 John’s call not to love the world.
Alternative generated candidates
- 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.
- 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.
1John.2.16 - Details
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Parallels
- 1 John 2:15 (structural): Immediate context: commands not to love the world, introducing the contrast between the Father's ways and worldly desires that 2:16 specifies.
- 1 John 2:17 (verbal): Continues the same motif—'the world is passing away' and its desires—reinforcing that worldly lusts are transient and not from the Father.
- James 1:14-15 (verbal): Describes how desire (epithumia) leads to temptation and sin, echoing the language of 'lust of the flesh' and inward origin of sinful desire.
- Colossians 3:5 (thematic): Lists earthly passions and covetousness (including 'evil desires') that believers are to put to death—paralleling the moral categories of fleshly desire and covetousness in 1 John 2:16.
- John 17:14-16 (allusion): Jesus' prayer that his followers are 'not of the world' because the world hates them echoes 1 John’s contrast between the Father's sphere and the world's values and desires.
Alternative generated candidates
- For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
- For all that is in the world—the cravings of the flesh, the longings of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
1John.2.17 - Details
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Parallels
- 1John.2.15-16 (structural): Immediate context in the same epistle: warns against loving the world and lists the world's desires (flesh, eyes, pride) which are passing away, contrasting with doing God's will.
- 1Corinthians.7.31 (verbal): Uses similar language about the present world 'in its present form is passing away,' paralleling the idea that the world and its desires are transient.
- Matthew.24.35 (verbal): Jesus' saying that 'heaven and earth will pass away' parallels the New Testament motif of cosmic transience contrasted with what endures (here, doing God's will).
- 2Peter.3.10-11 (thematic): Describes the heavens and earth passing away and draws the practical ethical conclusion that believers should live holy and godly lives—echoing the contrast between passing worldly desires and abiding in God's will.
- James.4.4 (thematic): Declares that friendship with the world is enmity with God, thematically linking the rejection of worldly desires in order to remain aligned with God's will.
Alternative generated candidates
- The world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
- The world and its desires are passing away; but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. Whoever loves the world does not have the love of the Father in him.
For everything in the world — the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life — comes not from the Father but from the world.
The world and its desires are passing away, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.