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 you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go after idols, departing from you.

But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the descendants of the adulterer and the harlot.

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

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her lover, and an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

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

A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign 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 me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

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

I have given them your 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 any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Enmity

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Whosoever

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

Is the

Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.

But those my enemies, who would not that I should reign over them, bring here, and slay them before me.

He that hates me hates my Father also.

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

General references

You shall not commit adultery.

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