Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
1 John 2:15
Love not the world; to love the world, and the things that are in the world, is to make them our treasure, and put our trust in them, instead of in God. Compare Matthew 6:19-24.
Love not the world; to love the world, and the things that are in the world, is to make them our treasure, and put our trust in them, instead of in God. Compare Matthew 6:19-24.
Verse 15. _LOVE NOT THE WORLD_] Though these several classes were so well acquainted with Divine things, and had all tasted the powers of the world to come: yet so apt are men to be drawn aside by se...
LOVE NOT THE WORLD - The term “world” seems to be used in the Scriptures in three senses: * As denoting the physical universe; the world as it appears to the eye; the world considered as the work of...
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)...
NEITHER. Greek. _mede_....
_Love not the world_ The asyndeton is remarkable. S. John has just stated his premises, his readers" happiness as Christians. He now abruptly states the practical conclusion, without any introductory...
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...
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...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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...
15. [489][490] read Ἡ�. Some later authorities have the conflate reading Ἡ� τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΑΤΡΌΣ. [489] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and after...
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...
ΑΓΑΠΆΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. _Praes. imper._ обычно используется для запрещения действия или жизненного отношения (GGBB, 487). ΚΌΣΜΟΣ (G2889) мир, мироздание. Это может означа...
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...
LOVE NOT THE WORLD, &C.— By the _world,_ is sometimes meant the whole creation; sometimes the visible part of it, more commonly this earthly globe, with its appendages. Sometimes the world includes 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...
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. LOVE NOT THE WORLD - that lieth in the wicked one (1 John 5:19), whom...
VERSE 15. LOVE NOT THE WORLD. This exhortation is intended for all three classes of believers before mentioned. Love not the world, meaning the wicked practices of men in the world; nor the things tha...
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...
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...
LOVE NOT THE WORLD] The 'world' here is not the world of nature, nor the world of humanity which 'God so loved' (John 3:16). It means all in the present order of things which appeals to the soul as an...
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 10 THE WORLD WHICH WE MUST NOT LOVE 1 John 2:15 An adequate development of words so compressed and pregnant as these would require a separate treatise, or series of treatises. But if we suc...
He is dealing with believers who have a large experience of the grace of Christ, and on this fact he proceeds to base an appeal, a call to further advancement and higher attainment: “Love not the worl...
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...
(14) Love not the (l) world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the (m) love of the Father is not in him. (14) The world which is full of wicked desires, lusts or...
_If any man love the world, this wicked world, or any thing in it, as pleasures, riches, honours, so that his affections be more upon these then upon God, the charity of the Father (or of God) is not...
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...
_WHAT IS ‘THE WORLD’?_ ‘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.’ 1 John 2:15 The ‘world’ here is some kind of...
15_Love not _He had said before that the only rule for living religiously, is to love God; but as, when we are occupied with the vain love of the world, we turn away all our thoughts and affections an...
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...
LOVE NOT THE WORLD,.... The habitable earth, the world in which men live; this is not to be loved by saints, as if it was their habitation, where they are always to be, and so loath to remove from it,...
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. Ver. 15. _Love not the world_] You fathers, and you young and strong m...
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...
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....
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...
What he here means by the forbidden object of our love, must be gathered from his own explication, 1 JOHN 2:16. The love itself forbidden, in reference thereto, is that excess thereof, whereby any adh...
Cyprian Treatise II On the Dress of Virgins And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever, even as God also abideth for ever."[21] Cyprian Trea...
1 John 2:15 not G3361 love G25 (G5720) world G2889 or G3366 in G1722 world G2889 If G1437 anyone...
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...
LOVE NOT THE WORLD (μη αγαπατε τον κοσμον). Prohibition with μη and the present active imperative of αγαπαω, either stop doing it or do not have the habit of doing it. This use of κοσμος is common i...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (1 John 3:13); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _...
1 John 2:15 The World and the Father. I. While St. John looks encouragingly and hopefully on the young men, while he sees in them the strength of the time that is as well as of the time that is to co...
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...
DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD. Compare James 4:4 and note. John does not mean our material universe, because this world is God's creation and is good (Genesis 1:31_:_ 1 Timothy 4:4). Neither is it wicked peop...
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 2:15 DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD warns against loving a world system that is opposed to God (compare John 12:31;...
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...
_Love not the world._ "There are two loves," says S. Augustine (_in. loc_.), "the love of God and the love of the world. If the love of the world occupy the heart, there is no room for the love of God...
_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 John 3:17; 1 John 4:5; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 5:4; 1 John 5:5;...
The world [τ ο ν κ ο σ μ ο ν]. See on John 1:9. The love of the Father [η α γ α π η τ ο υ π α τ ρ ο ς]. The phrase occurs only here in the New Testament. It means love towards the Father, yet as gene...
To you all, whether fathers, young men, or little children, I say, Love not the world — Pursue your victory by overcoming the world. If any man love the world — Seek happiness in visible things, he do...
Observe here, 1. That our apostle doth not, as he did before, direct his advice to any one particular sort or rank of Christians in special, but unto all in general; LOVE NOT THE WORLD, &C. Observe, 2...