James 4:4

A Conservative Version

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Cross References

Romans 8:7

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

Galatians 1:10

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

John 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own, but because ye are not of the world (instead I chose you out of the world), because of this the world hates you.

Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

John 17:14

I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Romans 5:10

For if, while being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled we will be saved by his life.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And having left them behind, he departed.

Hosea 3:1

And LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Psalm 73:27

For, lo, those who are far from thee shall perish. Thou have destroyed all those who go a whoring from thee.

Luke 19:27

Nevertheless those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring here, and kill them before me.

Matthew 12:39

But having answered, he said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Psalm 21:8

Thy hand will find out all thine enemies. Thy right hand will find out those who hate thee.

Jeremiah 9:2

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

Isaiah 57:3

But draw near here, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

Psalm 50:18

When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says LORD, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, how thou went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

Ezekiel 16:32

A wife who commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

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