James 4:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim?Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world's friend is being God's enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

Common English Bible

⁴ You unfaithful people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.

James 4:4 Cross References

Genesis 3:15

“And I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His heel.”

Psalm 21:8

Your hand reaches all Your enemies; Your right hand reaches those who hate You.

Psalm 50:18

“When you saw a thief, you were pleased with him, And you take part with adulterers.

Psalm 73:27

For look, those who are far from You perish; You shall cut off all those Who go whoring away from You.

Isaiah 57:3

“But come here, you sons of the sorceress, you offspring of the adulterer and the whore!

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go, and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your bridehood, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jeremiah 9:2

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

Ezekiel 16:32

“The wife who commits adultery who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Hosea 3:1

Then יהוה  said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of יהוה  for the children of Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 12:39

But He answering, said to them, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah.

Matthew 16:4

“A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah.” And He left them and went away.

Matthew 6:24

“No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.

Luke 19:27

‘But those enemies of mine who did not wish me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”

John 15:19

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

John 17:14

“I have given them Your Word, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

John 7:7

“It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness of it, that its works are wicked.

Romans 5:10

For if, being enemies, we were restored to favour with Elohim through the death of His Son, much more, having been restored to favour, we shall be saved by His life.

Romans 8:7

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself to the Torah of Elohim, neither indeed is it able,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not Elohim made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of Elohim, the world through wisdom did not know Elohim, it pleased Elohim through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

Galatians 1:10

For do I now persuade men, or Elohim? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be a servant of Messiah.

James 1:27

Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.