15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.


In Context

12 I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.

13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.

14 I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.

17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

1st John 2:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Love 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Love 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Love 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Love 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Love 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.