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

When thou didst see a thief, then thou didst consent with him and hast been partaker with adulterers.

For, behold, those that stray from thee shall perish; thou dost cut off all those that go a whoring from thee.

But come here, ye sons of the sorceress, generation of the adulterer and the whore.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, a congregation of rebels.

Then the LORD said unto me again, Go, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the sons of Israel, who look to other gods and love flagons of wine.

But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there no sign shall be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah;

A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and no sign shall be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them and departed.

The friendship

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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

Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.

Enmity

and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; that seed shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

Whosoever

For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.

Is the

Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

Moreover, those enemies of mine, who were unwilling that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.

He that hates me hates my Father also.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled with God by the death of his Son, much more, now reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

General references

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.