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 one or other of the three.
Lust of the flesh - i:e., which has its seat in our lower animal nature. Satan tried this temptation first on Christ (Luke 4:3). Youth is especially liable to fleshly lusts.
Lust of the eyes - the avenue through which outward things of the world, riches, pomp, and beauty, inflame us. Satan tried this temptation on Christ when he showed Him the kingdoms of the world in a moment. By lust of the eyes David (2 Samuel 11:2) and Achan fell (Joshua 7:21). Compare Psalms 119:37; Job's resolve, Job 31:1; Matthew 5:28. The only good of riches to the possessor is beholding them with the eyes. Compare Luke 14:18, "I must go and SEE it."
Pride of life, х alazoneia (G212)] - arrogant assumption: vain-glorious display. Pride was that whereby Satan fell, and forms the link between the two foes, the world (answering to the lust of the eyes) and the devil (the lust of the flesh is the third foe). Satan tried this temptation against Christ on the temple-pinnacle that in spiritual presumption, on the ground of His Father's care, He should cast Himself down. The same three foes appear in the three classes of soil on which the divine seed falls: The wayside hearers, the Devil; the thorns, the world; the rocky under soil, the flesh. The world's anti-Trinity, the "lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," similarly is presented in Satan's temptation of Eve: 'When she saw that the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise' (one manifestation of "the pride of life," desire to know above what God has revealed, Colossians 2:8; pride of unsanctified knowledge).
Of - does not spring from "the Father" (as the "little children," 1 John 2:13). He who is born of God alone turns to God; be who is of the world turns to the world: the sources of love to God and love to the world are irreconcilably distinct.