1 John 2:15

“Love not the world, &c.] The habitable earth, the world in which men live; this is not to be loved by saints, as if it was their habitation, where they are always to be, and so loath to remove from it, seeing they are but sojourners, and pilgrims, and strangers here; this is not their rest, nor dwellingplace, their continuing city, or proper country, that is heaven. Nor should they love the men of the world, who are as they came into it, are of it, and mind the things of it, and lie in wickedness, and are wicked men; for though these are to be loved, as men, as fellow creatures, and their good, both spiritual and temporal, is to be sought, and good is to be done to them, as much as lies in…”

“Love not the world--that lieth in the wicked one (Jo1 5:19), whom ye young men have overcome. Having once for all, through faith, overcome the world (Jo1 4:4; Jo1 5:4), carry forward the conquest by not loving it. "The world" here means "man, and man's world" [ALFORD], in his and its state as fallen from God. "God loved [with the love of compassion] the world," and we should feel the same kind of 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 latter kind of love for the God-estranged world, and yet have also "the love of the Father in" us. neither--Greek, "nor yet." A man might deny in general that he…”

“Love not the world - The term “world” seems to be used in the Scriptures in three senses: As denoting the physical universe; the world as it appears to the eye; the world considered as the work of God, as a material creation. (2)The world as applied to the people that reside in it - “the world of mankind.” (3)As the dwellers on the earth are by nature without religion, and act under a set of maxims, aims, and principles that have reference only to this life, the term comes to be used with reference to that community; that is, to the objects which they especially seek, and the principles by which they are actuated. Considered with reference to the first sense of the word, it is not improper…”

“To you all, whether fathers, young men, or little children, I say, Love not the world - Pursue your victory by overcoming the world. If any man love the world - Seek happiness in visible things, he does not love God. 1 John 2:16”

“2:15-17 The world is a morally evil system that is under the influence of Satan and is opposed to God and to Christ’s Kingdom on this earth (2:16; 3:1; 4:4; 5:19; John 12:31; 15:18; Eph 6:11-12; Jas 4:4). The world appeals to people’s fleshly desires and thereby diverts them from God. Those who are from this world need God to redeem them from it.”

“Love not: Jo1 4:5, Jo1 5:4, Jo1 5:5, Jo1 5:10; Joh 15:19; Rom 12:2; Gal 1:10; Eph 2:2; Col 3:1, Col 3:2; Ti1 6:10 If: Mat 6:24; Luk 16:13; Jam 4:4 the love: Jo1 3:17 1 John 2:16”