James 4:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You adulterous people!  Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.

Cross References

Romans 8:7

The mindset of the flesh is hostile  to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.

Galatians 1:10

For am I now trying to persuade people,  or God?  Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen   you out of it, the world hates you.

Matthew 6:24

‘No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

John 17:14

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

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows  in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Romans 5:10

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

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of   Jonah.’   Then he left them and went away.

Hosea 3:1

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress,  just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.’

John 7:7

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

Luke 19:27

But bring here these enemies of mine,   who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter   them in my presence.” ’

Matthew 12:39

He answered them,  ‘An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had a traveller’s lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

Isaiah 57:3

But come here, you witch’s sons, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!

Jeremiah 2:2

‘Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride – how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Genesis 3:15

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.

Ezekiel 16:32

You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law?  Where is the debater of this age?  Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.