James 4:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Adulterers

Matthew 16:4

The friendship

Enmity

Genesis 3:15

Romans 8:7

Whosoever

Galatians 1:10

Is the

General references

Exodus 20:14

John 15:18

Bible References

Adulterers

If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, - And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;

For lo! they who are far from thee, shall perish, Thou hast put an end to every one who wandered unchastely from thee.

But, ye, -- draw near hither, Ye sons of divination, - Ye seed of an adulterer when your mother committed unchastity!

Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them, - For they all, are Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;

Then said Yahweh unto me, Once more, go love a woman who loveth a friend, and is an adulteress, - according to the love of Yahweh unto the sons of Israel, though they keep turning away unto other gods, and love idolatrous raisin-cakes.

But, he, answering, said unto them, A wicked and adulterous generation, a sign, doth seek, and, a sign, will not be, given, it, save the sign of Jonah the prophet.

A wicked and adulterous generation, a sign, doth seek after, and, a sign, will not be given it, - save the sign of Jonah. And, leaving them behind, he departed.

The friendship

The world cannot hate you; but, me, it hateth, because, I, bear witness concerning it, that, the works thereof, are, wicked.

If, of the world, ye had been, the world, of its own, had been fond; but, because, of the world, ye are not, on the contrary, I, chose you out of the world, therefore, the world, doth hate you.

I, have given them thy word, and, the world, hated them, because they are not of the world - even as, I, am not of the world.

Be not loving the world, nor yet the things that are in the world: if anyone be loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Enmity

And enmity, will I put between thee, and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, - He shall crush thy head, but, thou, shalt crush his heel.

Inasmuch as, what is preferred by the flesh, is hostile towards God, for, unto the law of God, it doth not submit itself, neither in fact can it. -

Whosoever

For am I, even now, persuading, men, or God? Or am I seeking to please, men? If I had been still pleasing, men, Christ's servant, had I not been!

Is the

Thy hand, will find out, all thy foes, Thine own right hand, will find out them who hate thee.

But, these mine enemies who desired not that I should be made king over them, bring ye here, and slay them outright before me.

He that hateth me, hateth, my Father also.

For, if being enemies we were reconciled unto God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

General references

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

If, the world, is hating, you, ye are getting to know that, me, before you, it hath hated.