11 translations · Greek
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
1 John 2:15 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- 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,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Don't be in love with the world, and don't long for the things of this world. If you love the world, you won't have the Father's love in you.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Love 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,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Love 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.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Love 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 Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Μὴ | Mē | {Do} not | G3361 μή not |
| ἀγαπᾶτε | agapate | love | G25 ἀγαπάω to love |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμον | kosmon | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| μηδὲ | mēde | [or] | G3366 μηδέ nor |
| τὰ | ta | anything | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| τῷ | tō | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμῳ | kosmō | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| ἐάν | ean | If | G1437 ἐάν if |
| τις | tis | anyone | G5100 τις one |
| ἀγαπᾷ | agapa | loves | G25 ἀγαπάω to love |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμον | kosmon | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| οὐκ | ouk | not | G3756 οὐ no |
| ἔστιν | estin | is | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| ἡ | hē | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀγάπη | agapē | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| τοῦ | tou | of the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Πατρὸς | Patros | Father | G3962 πατήρ father |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| αὐτῷ | autō | him | G846 αὐτός it/s/he |
Related verses
- James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
- Colossians 3:1–2
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
- Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
- 1 John 5:4–5
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
- John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- 1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- 1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
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 or 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.
Read all of 1 John 2 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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