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.

Enmity

Whosoever

General references

Bible References

Adulterers

Matthew 12:39
In reply Jesus told them. "An evil and faithless generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given them except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 16:4
A wicked and faithless generation is seeking a sign, but no sign shall be given it but the sign of Jonah." So he left them and went away.

The friendship

John 7:7
"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.
John 15:19
"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
John 17:14
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.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Enmity

Romans 8:7
For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;

Whosoever

Galatians 1:10
Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

Is the

Luke 19:27
"'Howbeit these enemies of mine who were not willing for me to become their King, bring them here, and slay them in my presence.'"
John 15:23
"He who hates me hates my Father also.
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life.

General references

John 15:18
"do not forget that it hated me first.