15 [a]Love not this [b]world, neither the things that are in this world. If any man love this world, the [c]love of the Father is not in him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:15 The world which is full of wicked desires, lusts or pleasures, and pride, is utterly hated of our heavenly Father. Therefore the Father and the world cannot be loved together: and this admonition is very necessary for green and flourishing youth.
  2. 1 John 2:15 He speaketh of the world, as it agreeth not with the will of God, for otherwise God is said to love the world with an infinite love, John 3:16, that is to say, those whom he chose out of the world.
  3. 1 John 2:15 Wherewith the Father is loved.

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