1 John 2:17

World English Bible

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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1 John 2:17 in other translations

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1 John 2:17 · American Standard Version

1 John 2:17 in context

  1. 15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
  2. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
  3. 17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
  4. 18Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
  5. 19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.