James 4:4

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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.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel."

Psalm 21:8

All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.

Psalm 50:18

For if you had desired sacrifice, I would certainly have given it, but with holocausts, you will not be delighted.

Isaiah 57:3

But come here, you sons of the prophetess, you offspring of an adulterous man and a fornicating woman.

Jeremiah 2:2

"Go, and cry out to the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: I have remembered you, taking pity on your youth and on the charity of your betrothal, when you followed me into the desert, into a land which is not sown.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.

Ezekiel 16:32

but instead like a woman who is an adulteress, who prefers strangers to her own husband.

Hosea 3:1

And the Lord said to me: "Go yet again, and love a woman, beloved by a friend, yet an adulteress, for so does the Lord love the sons of Israel, yet they look to strange gods, and love the seeds of grapes."

Matthew 12:39

And answering, he said to them: "An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. And a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And leaving them behind, he went away.

Matthew 6:24

No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Luke 19:27

'Yet truly, as for those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and put them to death before me.' "

John 15:19

If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, am not of the world.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you. But it hates me, because I offer testimony about it, that its works are evil.

Romans 5:10

For if we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, while we were still enemies, all the more so, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Romans 8:7

And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where are the wise? Where are the scribes? Where are the truth-seekers of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of this world into foolishness?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For the world did not know God through wisdom, and so, in the wisdom of God, it pleased God to accomplish the salvation of believers, through the foolishness of our preaching.

Galatians 1:10

For am I now persuading men, or God? Or, am I seeking to please men? If I still were pleasing men, then I would not be a servant of Christ.

James 1:27

This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.