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
The friendship
Enmity
Whosoever
Is the
General references
Bible References
Adulterers
Matthew 12:39
But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and no sign shall be given it but the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 16:4
An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it except the sign of Jonah. And he left them and departed.
The friendship
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify of it that its works are evil.
John 15:19
If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore 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, as I am not of the world.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Enmity
Romans 8:7
Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.
Whosoever
Galatians 1:10
For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.
Is the
Luke 19:27
but those my enemies that wished me not to reign over them, bring hither and kill them before me.
John 15:23
He that hates me, hates my Father also.
Romans 5:10
For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life.
General references
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you.