(14) Love not the (l) world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the (m) love of the Father is not in him.
(14) The world which is full of wicked desires, lusts or pleasures, and pride, is utterly hated by our heavenly Father. Therefore the Father and the world cannot be loved together: and this admonition is very necessary for young and growing youth.
(l) He speaks of the world, as it agrees 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.
(m) Wherewith the Father is loved.