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.

Whosoever

General references

Bible References

Adulterers

Psalm 50:18
When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.
Psalm 73:27
For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.
Isaiah 57:3
"But you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring [of] an adulterer and she [who] commits fornication.
Jeremiah 9:2
{Oh that I had} in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them [are] adulterers, a band of traitors.
Hosea 3:1
And Yahweh said to me again, "Go, love a woman {who has a lover} and [is] committing adultery, just like the love of Yahweh [for] the children of Israel, but they [are] turning to other gods and love raisin cakes."
Matthew 12:39
But he answered [and] said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation desires a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah!
Matthew 16:4
An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah!" And he left them [and] went away.

The friendship

John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Enmity

Genesis 3:15
And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring and between her offspring; he will strike you [on the] head, and you will strike him [on the] heel."
Romans 8:7
because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],

Whosoever

Galatians 1:10
For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking 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 find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you.
Luke 19:27
But these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring [them] here and slaughter them [in] my presence!'"
John 15:23
The one who hates me hates my Father also.
Romans 5:10
For if, [while we] were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, by much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

General references

Exodus 20:14
"You shall not commit adultery.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.