17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.


In Context

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

15 Don'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.

16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

1 John 2:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:17The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God, abideth for ever.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust of it: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain — to the age.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God stays for ever.