15
Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.
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Practically everything that goes on in the world - wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important - has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.
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