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
But he answered and said to them, A wicked and adulterous generation is seeking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Matthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and no sign will be given to it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them and went away.

The friendship

John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath 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, nor the things in the world. If any one loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Enmity

Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.

Whosoever

Galatians 1:10
For do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Or am I endeavoring to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Is the

Luke 19:27
But as for those enemies of mine, who would not that I should reign over them, bring them here, and slay them before me.
John 15:23
He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
Romans 5:10
For if while enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled shall we be saved by his life;

General references

John 15:18
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.