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, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

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

The LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of Jonah." He left them, and departed.

The friendship

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.

Enmity

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Whosoever

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Is the

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

But bring those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"

He who hates me hates my Father also.

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

General references

"You shall not commit adultery.

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