1 John 2:17 aivw/na
At the close of the verse several versional and patristic witnesses expand the text by adding the gloss “just as God [or, that (one), copsa] abides for ever” (vgmss (copsa) Cyprian Lucifer Augustine). There is no Greek authority for the expansion (cf. 1 John 5:7-8).
Verse 17. _THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY_] All these things are continually fading and perishing; and the very _state_ in which they are possessed is changing perpetually, and the earth and its works will be...
AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY - Everything properly constituting this world where religion is excluded. The reference here does not seem to be so much to the material world, as to the scenes of show and...
II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS Chapter S 1:5-2:17 _ 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5)_ 2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8) 3. The advocacy of Christ to maint...
Christians are called to love God and their brethren, but they must not love the world, _i.e._ the circle of interests divorced from God and in opposition to His will. Its gratifications, such as sens...
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything that is in the world--the flesh's desire, the eye's desire, life's em...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
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_and the world passeth away_ Or, IS PASSING AWAY; as in 1 John 2:8: the process is now going on. We owe the verb _-pass_away" here to Coverdale: it is a great improvement on Tyndale's - _vanisheth_awa...
The Things and Persons to be Avoided These are summed up under two heads: i. _The World and the Things in the World_(15 17); ii. _Antichrists_(18 26). The section begins with a _threefold statement_o...
The Things to be Avoided; the World and its Ways Having reminded them solemnly of the blessedness of their condition as members of the Christian family, whether old or young, and having declared that...
15–17. THE THINGS TO BE AVOIDED;—THE WORLD AND ITS WAYS Having reminded them solemnly of the blessedness of their condition as members of the Christian family, whether old or young, and having declare...
12–28. THE THINGS AND PERSONS TO BE AVOIDED These are summed up under two heads: i. _The World and the Things in the World_ (15–17); ii. _Antichrists_ (18–26). The section begins with a _threefold sta...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
ΠΑΡΆΓΕΤΑΙ. IS PASSING AWAY; as in 1 John 2:8 : the process is now going on. We owe the verb ‘_pass_ away’ here to Coverdale: it is a great improvement on Tyndale’s ‘_vanisheth_ away’. Comp. ‘The fashi...
ΠΑΡΆΓΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΡΆΓΟΜΑΙ (G3855) уходить (_см._ 1 John 2:8). ΠΟΙΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать. Subst. part. подчеркивает отличительную особенность, ΘΈΛΗΜΑ (G...
DISCOURSE: 2438 LOVE OF THE WORLD FORBIDDEN 1 John 2:15. 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. For all that is...
AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY, &C.— The short continuance of this life is here alleged as another reason against worldly-mindedness. See Psalms 37:36. 2 Peter 3:7. In this and the two foregoing verses th...
CHAPTER V _TO WALK IN THE LIGHT IS TO SHARE GOD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD OUR BROTHERS IN CHRIST_ (The Second Test. The First Time) 1 John 2:7-17 A. _The Text_ Beloved, no new commandment write I unto yo...
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. THE WORLD - with all who are of the world worldly. PASSETH AWAY, [ paragetai (G3855)] - 'is...
VERSE 17. AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY. Here we are informed that the world and all the lust thereof is transient; nothing permanent or abiding about it. Certainly a poor foundation upon which to build...
1 The ministry of John is based upon his personal acquaintance with the Lord in the flesh. Indeed, this was the prime qualification of all the twelve apostles (Act_1:21). They were to bear witness to...
2:17 does (g-12) See Note e at ch. 3.10....
THE ADVOCACY OF CHRIST AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF BELIEVERS 1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. ADVOCATE] The word thus translate...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 CHRIST SPEAKS FOR US AND WE SHOULD OBEY GOD (1 JOHN 2:1-6) V1 My *children, I write these things to you so that you will not *sin. But if you...
THE THINGS THEY MUST NOT LOVE IF THEY WALKED IN THE LIGHT (1 John 2:12). — The solemnity of the thoughts of 1 John 2:9; 1 John 2:11 is too much for the warm heart of the Apostle. He cannot bear even t...
CHAPTER 11 USE AND ABUSE OF THE SENSE OF THE VANITY OF THE WORLD 1 John 2:17 The connection of the passage in which these words occur is not difficult to trace for those who are used to follow those...
An explanation, especially of ἡ ἀλαζονία τοῦ βίου. To set one's affection on the things in the world is “braggart boasting”; for they are not ours, they are transient. _Cf._ Mohammed: “What have I to...
The Appeal of Experience. “I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake; I am writing to you, fathers, because ye have got to know Him that it is...
TRANSIENT DESIRES, ABIDING LIFE 1 John 2:12 There are gradations in Christian experience-the child, the father, the young man. The note of the child is the glad sense of forgiveness; of the father, a...
Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to ligh...
"DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD" The "world," which John instructed Christians not to love, is defined by Turner as "the sphere of rebellion, including sensuous desires and interests, false pride and vanity, u...
(15) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (15) He shows how much better it is to obey the Father's will, than the lusts of the world,...
All that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, under which is comprehended all that pleaseth the senses, or the concupiscence of the eyes; i.e. a longing after such things which enter by...
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. (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of...
17_And the world passeth away _As there is nothing in the world but what is fading, and as it were for a moment, he hence concludes that they who seek their happiness from it, make a wretched and mise...
If, on the other hand, we have even committed sin and all, being judged according to the light, is confessed (so that the will no longer takes part in it, the pride of that will being broken down), He...
AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY,.... Not the matter and substance, but the fashion, form, and scheme of it, 1 Corinthians 7:31; kingdoms, cities, towns, houses, families, estates, and possessions, are cont...
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Ver. 17. _And the world passeth away_] As the stream of a swift river passeth by the side of a ci...
To you all, whether fathers, young men, or little children, I say, _Love not the world_ Pursue your victory by overcoming the world, and all the temptations which may assault you from it, whether from...
PASSETH AWAY; and should not therefore be made the object of our love. THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD; in opposition to loving the world and its lusts. ABIDETH FOR EVER; is blessed union with God, who is...
AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY AND THE LUST THEREOF; BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD ABIDETH FOREVER. On the fact that he is dealing with believers who have a large experience of the mercy of the Father...
A warning against anti-Christian teaching:...
Warning against the love of the world:...
“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
15-17 The things of the world may be desired and possessed for the uses and purposes which God intended, and they are to be used by his grace, and to his glory; but believers must not seek or value t...
He sets the difference in view, of living according to the common genius, will, or inclination of the world, (which is lust), and according to the Divine will, that he who unites himself in his will a...
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews In the Epistle of John: "But he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever, even as He Himself also abideth for ever."[509]...
1 John 2:17 And G2532 world G2889 away G3855 (G5731) and G2532 lust G1939 it G846 but G1161 does...
THEY KNOW THE FATHER AND THE ETERNAL WORD AND MUST BEWARE OF LOVING THE WORLD (1 JOHN 2:12). Having exhorted them of the need to remain true to Him and to the Word Who ‘is' from the beginning, and to...
‘Do not love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of t...
_The love of the world: renounced in the Fellowship of the Father. This exhortation is addressed to all, the tone of contrast being now again resumed._ 1 John 2:15. LOVE NOT THE WORLD, NEITHER THE THI...
First the apostle announces his message that God is light and only light (1 John 1:5). Then follows (down to chap. 1 John 2:2) a universal statement of the evangelical conditions of fellowship with Hi...
PASSETH AWAY (παραγετα). "Is passing by" (linear action, present middle indicative), as in verse 1 John 2:8. There is consolation in this view of the transitoriness of the conflict with the world. E...
1 John 2:17 The Apostle draws a contrast, and bids us choose which of two things we prefer. "The world," he says, "passeth away, and the lust thereof"; at its best it is but for a moment; "but he tha...
1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not. 1 John 2:1. _And if any man sin-_ What then? Is it a hopele...
1 John 2:1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our...
CONTENTS: Christ's advocacy for the believer. Tests of fellowship, obedience and love. Warning against worldliness and apostates. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, Satan, anti-christ. CONCLUSION: To kno...
1 John 2:2. _He is the propitiation for our sin:_ ιλασμος, a ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On Genesis 15:9, the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the she g...
IS PASSING AWAY. This is the cycle of Babylon that we see in _Rev. ch 18._ See notes there. Those who make the things of this world their "god" are doomed to failure! Wealth, power, fame, honor, and s...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:7 The Unchanging Commandment in a Changing World. John emphasizes the love commandment. He then describes the challenge of living as a Christian in a dark world (vv....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:17 THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY. History is speeding toward a conclusion planned by God. ⇐...
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ At the end of the last chapter it was said that all who were grown up had sinned, either mortally as heathens, o...
_And the world passeth away and the lust thereof_. See Matthew 24:35; 1Co 7:31; 2 Peter 3:11. See also Wisdom v. 7; S. Bernard, _Epist._ cvii., &c. As S. Jerome says (_Epist._ iii.): "If we were grant...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 2:12 indicate the things which the disciples must _not_ love, if they would walk in the light, and be sons with the “Only Begotten.” 1 John 2:12. SINS ARE FORGI...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 2:1, 1 JOHN 2:2 Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous. The connexion with the preceding is close. We have ju...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 2. And we'll begin tonight at verse 1 John 2:12 where we left off last Sunday night. The book of I John is a book of proofs. It isn't what I say; it's...
1 Corinthians 7:31; 1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 1:25; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 Peter 4
Forever [ε ι ς τ ο ν α ι ω ν α]. The only form in which aijwn age, life, occurs in the Gospel and Epistles of John, except ejk tou aijwnov since the world began (John 9:32). Some old versions add, "as...
The world passeth away, and the desire thereof — That is, all that can gratify those desires passeth away with it. But he that doeth the will of God — That loves God, not the world. Abideth — In the e...