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, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery.

For behold, they being far off from thee shall perish: thou didst lay waste all committing fornication from thee.

And ye, come ye near here, sons of her practicing magic, seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

Who will give me in the desert a lodging-place of travelers? and I will leave my people and go from them, for they all commit adultery; an assembly of those acting faithlessly.

And Jehovah will say to me, Yet go, love a woman loving evil and an adulteress, as Jehovah loves the sons of Israel, and they took to other gods and love raisin-cakes.

And he having answered, said to them, An evil generation and an adulteress seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; and no sign shall be given her, except the sign of Jonas the prophet. And having left them, he departed.

The friendship

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

If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and 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 hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Enmity

And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy seed and between her seed; it shall lie in wait for thee as to the head, and thou shalt lie in wait for him as to the heel.

Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.

Whosoever

For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

Is the

Thy hand shall find for all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find those hating thee.

But those mine enemies, not haying wished me to reign over them, bring hither, and slaughter before me.

He hating me hates my Father also.

For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

General references

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

If the world hate you, know that it has hated me the first of you.