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.
and the lust of the eyes: A very sobering comment is made by Vincent on this phrase: "The desire of the eyes does not involve appropriation. It is satisfied with contemplating. It represents a higher type of desire than the desire of the flesh, in that it seeks mental pleasure where the other seeks physical gratification" (336). Jesus alluded to this very point when he cautioned, "whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matthew 5:28). Peter speaks of those who have "eyes full of adultery" (2 Peter 2:14). In these days, when people are so caught up in pornographic movies and literature, we should alerted to the fact that these materials appeal to the evil cravings of the eyes. To find mental pleasure in such filth destroys purity of heart and deprives one of fellowship with God. It was the lust of the eyes that contributed to the downfall of Eve in Eden’s Garden (Genesis 3:6), to Achan among the spoils of gold and silver (Joshua 7:21), and to David on a housetop, lustfully looking at a bathing beauty (2 Samuel 11:2). The eyes are the "windows of the soul" that can be used to fill the soul either with beauty and grace or with evil cravings for forbidden pleasures.