SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:17
Y el mundo pasa, y su concupiscencia; mas el que hace la voluntad de Dios, permanece para siempre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:17
Verse 17. The world passeth away] All these things are continually fading and perishing; and the very state in which they are possessed is changing perpetually, and the earth and its works will be shortly burnt up. And the lust thereof] The men of this world, their vain pursuits, and delusive pleasures, are passing away in their successive generations, and their very memory perishes; but he that doeth the will of God - that seeks the pleasure, profit, and honour that comes from above, shall abide for ever, always happy through time and eternity, because God, the unchangeable source of felicity, is his portion.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And the world passeth away , &c.] Not the matter and substance, but the fashion, form, and scheme of it, ( 1 Corinthians 7:31); kingdoms, cities, towns, houses, families, estates, and possessions, are continually changing, and casting into different hands, and different forms; the men of the world, the inhabitants of it, are continually removing; one generation goes, and another comes, new faces are continually appearing; the riches and honours of the world are fading, perishing, and transitory things; everything is upon the flux, nothing is permanent; which is another argument why the world, and the things of it, are not to be loved: and the lust thereof ; also passes away; and objects of lust are fading and fleeting, as beauty, and riches, and honours; these are continually taking away from men, or men are taken away from them, and will not be hereafter; and even the pleasure of lust itself passes away as soon as enjoyed; the pleasures of sin are but for a season, and a very short one; and are indeed but imaginary, and leave a real bitterness and sorrow behind them, and at length bring a man to ruin and destruction: but he that doeth the will of God ; not perfectly as contained in the law, which is the good, and perfect, and acceptable will of God; for no man can do that in such a manner, though a regenerate man desires to do it, even as it is done in heaven, and serves the law of God with his mind, and under the influence of the Spirit of God; and does walk in his statutes, and keeps his judgments from a principle of love, in faith, and without mercenary views and sinister ends, without depending on what he does for life and salvation; and such an one may be said to be a doer of the will of God: though rather here it intends such an one as believes in Christ, as the propitiation for his sins, and as his advocate with the Father, and who, makes Christ his pattern and example, and walks as he walked; and particularly observes the new commandment of love, loves God, and Christ, and his fellow Christians, and not the world, and the things of it: and such a man is happy, for he abideth for ever ; in the love of God, which will never depart from him, nor shall he be separated from that; and in the hands and arms of Christ, out of which none can pluck him; and in the family and household of God, where he, as a son, abides for ever, and shall never be cast out; and in a state of justification, and shall never enter into condemnation; and in a state of grace and holiness, from whence he shall never fall totally and finally; and in heaven with Christ to all eternity: the reason of this his abiding is not his doing the will of God, which is only descriptive of him manifestatively, and not the cause of his perpetuity and immovableness; but his eternal election of God, which stands sure, not on the foot of works, but of him that calleth; and the covenant of grace in which he is interested, and which is immovable, sure, firm, and inviolable; and the foundation Jesus Christ, on which he is built; and the principle of grace in him, which always remains, and is connected with eternal life.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-17 - The things of the world may be desired and possessed for the uses an purposes which God intended, and they are to be used by his grace, an to his glory; but believers must not seek or value them for thos purposes to which sin abuses them. The world draws the heart from God and the more the love of the world prevails, the more the love of God decays. The things of the world are classed according to the thre ruling inclinations of depraved nature. 1. The lust of the flesh, or the body: wrong desires of the heart, the appetite of indulging all things that excite and inflame sensual pleasures. 2. The lust of the eyes: the eyes are delighted with riches and rich possessions; this is the lust of covetousness. 3. The pride of life: a vain man craves the grandeur and pomp of a vain-glorious life; this includes thirst afte honour and applause. The things of the world quickly fade and die away desire itself will ere long fail and cease, but holy affection is no like the lust that passes away. The love of God shall never fail. Man vain efforts have been made to evade the force of this passage by limitations, distinctions, or exceptions. Many have tried to show ho far we may be carnally-minded, and love the world; but the plai meaning of these verses cannot easily be mistaken. Unless this victor over the world is begun in the heart, a man has no root in himself, but will fall away, or at most remain an unfruitful professor. Yet thes vanities are so alluring to the corruption in our hearts, that withou constant watching and prayer, we cannot escape the world, or obtai victory over the god and prince of it.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
17. Forever (eiv ton aiwna). The only form in which aijwn age, life, occurs in the Gospel and Epistles of John, except ejk tou aijwnov since the world began (John ix. 32). Some old versions add, "as God abideth forever."
