1 John 2:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

1 John 2:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
1 John 2:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 sen...
1 John 2:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

pride. Greek. alazoneia. Only here and James 4:16 (boastings). life . App-170. of . App-104.
1 John 2:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 the...
1 John 2:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2438 LOVE OF THE WORLD FORBIDDEN 1 John 2:15-17 . 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 al...
1 John 2:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. For all that is in the world - All that it can boast...
1 John 2:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
1 John 2:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
1 John 2:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 tra...
1 John 2:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

THE THINGS THEY MUST NOT LOVE IF THEY WALKED IN THE LIGHT ( 1 John 2:12-17 ). — 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 b...
1 John 2:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 10 THE WORLD WHICH WE MUST NOT LOVE 1 John 2:15-16 An adequate development of words so compressed and pregnant as these would require a separate treatise, or series of treatises. But i...
1 John 2:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Transient Desires, Abiding Life 1 John 2:12-17 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...
1 John 2:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 lig...
1 John 2:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 o...
1 John 2:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 a...
1 John 2:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, &am...
1 John 2:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 fro...
1 John 2:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

“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...
1 John 2:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Against the Love of the World. A. D. 80. 12 I write unto you, little children, because your...
1 John 2:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
1 John 2:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

They Know the Father and the Eternal Word and Must Beware of Loving The World ( 1 John 2:12-17 ). Having exhorted them of the need to remain true to Him and to the Word Who ‘is' from the beginning...
1 John 2:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 2:12-17 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...
1 John 2:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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 imagin...
1 John 2:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:1-4 . 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 fo...
1 John 2:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 John 2:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 c...
1 John 2:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning against the love of the world:
1 John 2:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:6 ; 1 Peter 1:14 ; 1 Peter 2:11 ; 1 Peter 4:2 ; 1 Peter 4:3 ; 2 Peter 2:10 ; 2 Peter 2:18 ; Daniel 4:30 ; Ecclesiastes 5:10 ; Ecclesiastes 5:11 ; Ephesians 2:3 ; Esther 1...
1 John 2:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 subservi...

1 John 2:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 2:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 John 2:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 2:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 John 2:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 2:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 2:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 2:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 2:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 2:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 2:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 2:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 2:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes