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.
The friendship
Enmity
Whosoever
General references
Bible References
Adulterers
Psalm 50:18 When you see a thief,
you make friends with him,
and you associate with adulterers.
you make friends with him,
and you associate with adulterers.
Psalm 73:27 Those far from You will certainly perish;
You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
Isaiah 57:3 But come here,
you sons of a sorceress,
offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
you sons of a sorceress,
offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
Jeremiah 9:2 If only I had a traveler’s lodging place
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.
Hosea 3:1
Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
Matthew 12:39
But He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 16:4 An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.
The friendship
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.
John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
John 17:14 I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
Enmity
Genesis 3:15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.
Romans 8:7
For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.
Whosoever
Galatians 1:10
For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.
Is the
Psalm 21:8 Your hand will capture all your enemies;
your right hand will seize those who hate you.
your right hand will seize those who hate you.
Luke 19:27 But bring here these enemies of mine, who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter them in my presence.’”
John 15:23 The one who hates Me also hates My Father.
Romans 5:10
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!
General references
Exodus 20:14 Do not commit adultery.
John 15:18 “If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.