MARCH 4, 2025 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS

 

1 John 2:15-18

Do Not Love the World

¹⁵ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life^[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷ And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Warning Concerning Antichrists

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

Footnotes

1. 1 John 2:16 Or pride in possessions

Psalm 49:11-16

¹¹ Their graves are their homes forever,^[a]
    their dwelling places to all generations,
    though they called lands by their own names.
¹² Man in his pomp will not remain;
    he is like the beasts that perish.

¹³ This is the path of those who have foolish confidence;
    yet after them people approve of their boasts.^[b] Selah
¹⁴ Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
    death shall be their shepherd,
and the upright shall rule over them in the morning.
    Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.
¹⁵ But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,
    for he will receive me. Selah

¹⁶ Be not afraid when a man becomes rich,
    when the glory of his house increases.

Footnotes

1. Psalm 49:11 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Their inward thought was that their homes were forever
2. Psalm 49:13 Or and of those after them who approve of their boasts

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