Is not of the Father; does not come from him, and is not on his side, but stands in opposition to him. He created the world, and gave it to men to be used in his service, not to be abused as the minister of fleshly lust.
Is of the world; comes from the world as the nourisher of earthly lust, and is opposed to God, and his service.
Verse 16. _FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD_] All that it can boast of, all that it can promise, is only sensual, transient gratification, and even this promise it cannot fulfil; so that its warmest votar...
FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD - That is, all that really constitutes the world, or that enters into the aims and purposes of those who live for this life. All that that community lives for may be compr...
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...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
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...
PRIDE. Greek. _alazoneia._ Only here and James 4:16 (boastings). LIFE. App-170. OF. App-104....
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...
Proof of the preceding statement by shewing the fundamental opposition in detail. _all that is in the world_ Neuter singular: in 1 John 2:15 we had the neuter plural. The _material_contents of the uni...
Proof of the preceding statement by shewing the fundamental opposition in detail. ΠΑ͂Ν ΤῸ ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι Κ. Neuter singular: in 1 John 2:15 we had the neuter plural. The _material_ contents of the universe c...
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...
ΈΠΙΘΥΜΊΑ (G1939) сильное желание, похоть, страсть (TDNT; DNP, 2:542-44). ΣΑΡΚΌΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΣΆΡΞ (G4561) плоть. Это слово может обозначать падшую человеческую природу вообще, враждебность по отно...
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...
FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD,— St. John did by no means intend to say, that the natural world, and every thing in it, is confusion and deformity. If so, how could we from the make and constitution of...
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...
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD - can be closed under one o...
VERSE 16. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD. Here, as before, the word world comprehends the men of the world. This is apparent from the succeeding clause. THE LUST OF THE FLESH. This expression is one c...
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...
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...
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...
ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σαρκός, not object. gen. (Aug.: “desiderium earum rerum quæ pertinent ad carnem, sicut cibus et concubitus, et cætera hujusmodi,”) but subject.: “the lust which the flesh feels, which r...
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...
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...
16_The lust of the flesh_, or, _namely, the lust of the flesh_. The old interpreter renders the verse otherwise, for from one sentence he makes two. Those Greek authors do better, who read these words...
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...
FOR ALL THAT [IS] IN THE WORLD,.... This is the sum of the evil things in the world; or these following are the objects of sin in the world, or about which wicked men are conversant; even such as are...
For all that _is_ in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. Ver. 16. _The lust of the flesh, the lust of, &c._]...
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...
Warning against the love of the world:...
FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND THE LUST OF THE EYES AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE, IS NOT OF THE FATHER, BUT IS 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...
Here he explains his meaning, what, under the name of THE WORLD, and _the things_ of it, we are not to love, or under what notion we ought not to love it, viz. the world as it contains the objects and...
Tertullian On Modesty , with its own vicious nature, easily indulging concupiscence after whatever it had seen to be "attractive to the sight,"[70]...
1 John 2:16 For G3754 all G3956 in G1722 lust G1939 flesh G4561 G2532 lust G1939 eyes G3788 and...
‘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...
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...
_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...
ALL THAT (παν το). Collective use of the neuter singular as in 1 John 5:4, like παν ο in John 6:37; John 6:39. Three examples, not necessarily covering all sins, are given in the nominative in appos...
1 John 2:16 I. The world is nature's heaven. It is a carnal copy of a spiritual joy. It is a figment which he who is the prince of it sets up, whereby, indulging our senses, or pleasing our imaginati...
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...
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...
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...
EVERYTHING. John describes the _world_ of 1 John 2:15 to show what he means. WHAT THE SINFUL SELF DESIRES. A passionate desire for forbidden things. _Augustine_ thought it meant immoral desires. John...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:16 ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD. John does not consider the whole created order evil (see Genesis 1:31). Rather, he gives examples of what believers should a
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....
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...
_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 10:6; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Peter 4
All [π α ν]. Not all things severally, but all that is in the world collectively, regarded as a unit. The lust [η ε π ι θ υ μ ι α]. See on Mark 4:19. Of the flesh. Sensual appetite. The desire which...
The desire of the flesh — Of the pleasure of the outward senses, whether of the taste, smell, or touch. The desire of the eye — Of the pleasures of imagination, to which the eye chiefly is subservient...