James 4:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

Psalm 21:8

Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.

Psalm 50:18

When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

Psalm 73:27

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

Isaiah 57:3

But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

Ezekiel 16:32

The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

Hosea 3:1

And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.

Matthew 12:39

But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

Matthew 16:4

An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.

Matthew 6:24

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

Luke 19:27

And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

John 17:14

I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 7:7

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

Romans 8:7

Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

James 1:27

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.