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.
Love not the world - that lieth in the wicked one (1 John 5:19), whom ye young men have overcome. Having once for all, through faith, overcome the world (1 John 4:4; 1 John 5:4), keep your conquest by not loving "the world" in its state as fallen from God. "God loved (with compassion) the world." We should feel the same love for the fallen world; but we are not to love the world with congeniality and sympathy in its alienation from God. We cannot have this love for the God-estranged world, and yet have also "the love of the Father" in us.
Neither, х meede (G3366)] - 'nor yet.' A man might deny in general that he loved the world, while keenly following THE THINGS IN IT-its riches, honours, or pleasures; this clause prevents him escaping conviction.
Any man. Therefore the warning, though primarily addressed to the young, applies to all.
Love of - i:e., toward "the Father." The two, God and the (sinful) world, are so opposed, that both cannot be congenially loved at once.