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.
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Gill's Exposition
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,…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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 sensible…
This new command of holy love, with the incentives thereto, may possibly be directed to the several ranks of disciples that are here accosted. The several graduates in the Christian university, the…
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…
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