Verse 4

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.

Referenced Verses

  • John 15:19 : 19 ‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 ‹No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.›
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 ¶ For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.› 24 ‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›
  • John 17:14 : 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.›
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
  • Hos 3:1 : 1 ¶ Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
  • Matt 12:39 : 39 But he answered and said unto them, ‹An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:›
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 ‹A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.› And he left them, and departed.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
  • Ps 21:8 : 8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
  • Ps 50:18 : 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
  • Ps 73:27 : 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
  • Jer 2:2 : 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 ‹But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay› [them] ‹before me.›