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 seest a thief, thou runnest with him, and art partaker with the adulterers.

For lo, they that forsake thee shall perish; thou destroyest all them that commit fornication against thee.

Come hither, therefore, ye charmer's children; ye sons of the adulterer and the whore.

Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.

Then said the LORD to me, "Go yet thy way and vow an adulterous woman, whom thy neighbour loveth as the LORD doth the children of Israel: howbeit, they have respect to strange gods, and love the wine cans."

He answered them saying, "The evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign; but there shall no sign be given to them, but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

The forward nation, and adulterous, seeketh a sign: and there shall none other sign be given unto them, but the sign of the prophet Jonah." So left he them and departed.

The friendship

The world cannot hate you. Me it hateth: Because I testify of it, that the works of it are evil.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. Howbeit, because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore hateth you the world.

I have given them thy words, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.

Enmity

Moreover, I will put hatred between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. And that seed shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread it on the heel."

because that the fleshly mind is enmity against God: For it is not obedient to the law of God, neither can be.

Whosoever

Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.

Is the

All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; thy righthand shall find out them that hate thee.

Moreover, those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.'"

He that hateth me, hateth my father.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more, seeing we are reconciled, we shall be preserved by his life.

General references

"Thou shalt not break wedlock.

"If the world hate you, ye know that he hated me before he hated you.