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1 John 2:16

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.

KJV

ὅτι πᾶν τὸ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ, ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σαρκὸς καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ ἡ ἀλαζονία τοῦ βίου, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς ἀλλ’ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου ἐστίν.

Greek NT

quoniam omne quod est in mundo, concupiscentia carnis est, et concupiscentia oculorum, et superbia vitæ : quæ non est ex Patre, sed ex mundo est.

Vulgate

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

ASV

For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βίος
bios
noun · 10×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
ἀλαζονεία
alazoneia
noun · 2×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπιθυμία
epithumia
noun · 38×
ὀφθαλμός
ophthalmos
noun · 100×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2514St. John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life.300 In the Catholic catechetical tradition, the ninth commandment forbids carnal concupiscence; the tenth forbids coveting another's goods.
§2534The tenth commandment unfolds and completes the ninth, which is concerned with concupiscence of the flesh. It forbids coveting the goods of another, as the root of theft, robbery, and fraud, which the seventh commandment forbids. "Lust of the eyes" leads to the violence and injustice forbidden by the fifth commandment.318 Avarice, like fornication, originates in the idolatry pr…
He saith to me, "Put away from thee all evil desire, and clothe thyself with good and holy desire. For clothed with this desire, thou shalt hate evil desire, and shalt bridle and direct it as thou wilt. For evil desire is savage, and is tamed with difficulty."
Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:2 — Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • 1Cor 10:6 — Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
  • 1Pet 1:14 — As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • 2Cor 4:18 — While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  • 2Pet 2:10 — But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
  • 2Pet 2:14 — Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
  • 2Pet 2:18 — For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
  • 2Sam 11:2 — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautif
  • Acts 25:23 — And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul w
  • Dan 4:30 — The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
  • Eccl 2:11 — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 4:8 — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I
  • Eccl 5:10 — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
  • Eccl 5:11 — When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
  • Eph 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • Eph 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • Esth 1:3 — In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
  • Gal 5:17 — For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
  • Gal 5:24 — And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
  • Gen 3:6 — And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
  • Gen 3:6 — And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
  • Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
  • Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
  • Gen 39:7 — And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
  • Jas 3:15 — This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
  • Job 31:1 — I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
  • Job 31:1 — I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
  • Josh 7:21 — When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid i
  • Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
  • Judg 14:1 — And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
  • Luke 4:5 — And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
  • Matt 4:8 — Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
  • Matt 5:28 — But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matt 5:28 — But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Num 11:4 — And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
  • Num 11:34 — And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
  • Prov 6:25 — Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • Prov 21:10 — The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.