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1 John 2:16

1 John 2:16 (WEB)

For 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.

Catechism · 3

The Ninth Commandment

  • §2514Article 9 · The Ninth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

    “St. John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Jn 2:16.

The Tenth Commandment

  • §2534Article 10 · The Tenth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

    “"Lust of the eyes" leads to the violence and injustice forbidden by the fifth commandment.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Jn 2:16; Mic 2:2.

Man

  • §377Paragraph 6 · ManRead at vatican.va

    “The "mastery" over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self. the first man was unimpaired and ordered in his whole being because he was free from the triple concupiscence” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Jn 2:16.

Fathers and councils · 19

Catena Aurea on Luke

  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke

    “Now John when he said, all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, (1 John 2:16.) began from the point where the Gospel ended.” — the author cites it

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John Cassian

Augustine of Hippo

  • “…what Thou hast made, nor sacrifice themselves to Thee, even such as they have made themselves to be; nor do they slay their own pride, as fowls of the air, nor their own curiosities, by which (like the fishes of the sea) they wander over the unknown paths of the abyss, nor their own extravagance, as the “beasts of…” — editor's note: He makes use of the same illustrations on Psalms viii. and xi. , where the birds of the air represent the proud, the fishes of the sea those who have too great…

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  • “Verily, Thou commandest that I should be continent from the “lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16. Dilating on Ps. viii. he makes these three roots of sin to correspond to the threefold nature of our Lord’s temptation in the wilderness. See…

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  • “There remain the delights of these eyes of my flesh, concerning which to make my confessions in the hearing of the ears of Thy temple, those fraternal and devout ears; and so to conclude the temptations of “the lust of the flesh” which still assail me, groaning and desiring to be clothed upon with my house from heaven.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16.

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  • “This longing, since it originates in an appetite for knowledge, and the sight being the chief amongst the senses in the acquisition of knowledge, is called in divine language, “the lust of the eyes.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16.

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  • “Riches truly which are sought for in order that they may minister to some one of these three “lusts,” or to two, or the whole of them, if the mind be not able to see clearly whether, when it hath them, it despiseth them, they may be cast on one side, that so it may prove itself.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16. See beginning of sec. 41, above.

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  • “…searcheth the reins; that when He shall find that our cares incline neither to the lust of the flesh, nor to the lust of the eyes, nor to the pride of life, all which pass away as a shadow, but that they are raised upward to the joys of things eternal, which are spoilt by no change, He may direct the righteous,…” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16.

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  • “And they appear to me to be enumerated by the Apostle John, when he says, “Love not the world; for all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 15, 16.

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  • ““For all that is in the world, is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,” three things he hath said, which are not of the Father, but are of the world.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16, 17.

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  • “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him: because all that is in the world, is lust of the flesh, and lust of the eyes, and pride of life; which is not of the Father, but is of the world.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 15, 16

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  • “But the concupiscence of the bad, by reason of which there is in them a false patience, “is not of the Father,” as saith the Apostle John, but is of the world.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16

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  • “For in speaking in this passage of the world, He refers to those who love the world; and such a love is not of the Father.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 16.

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Jerome

Tertullian

  • “It was still, up to that time, accounted as being in Adam, with its own vicious nature, easily indulging concupiscence after whatever it had seen to be “attractive to the sight,” and looking back at the lower things, and checking its itching with fig-leaves.” — editor's note: See Gen. iii. 6; and comp. 1 John ii. 16.

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Cyprian of Carthage

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  • Galatians 5:16 and 1 John 2:16 share the same wording (9 words).

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