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
And He, answering, said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Matthew 16:4
An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet." And, leaving them, He departed.
The friendship
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but Me it hates, because I testify concerning 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, on this account the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them Thy word, and the world 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 anyone loves 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 is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;
Whosoever
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.
Is the
Luke 19:27
But, these my enemies, who did not wish me to be king over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.'"
John 15:23
He who hates Me hates My Father also.
Romans 5:10
For if, while we were 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 hates you, ye know that it has hated Me before it hated you.