James 4:4

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You adulterous people! Don't you realize that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Those who want to be friends of the world make themselves enemies of God.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Psalm 21:8

You, the king, will find and capture all your enemies; you will seize everyone who hates you.

Psalm 50:18

When you see people stealing, you admire them; you associate with adulterers.

Psalm 73:27

Those people who are far from God will die. You destroy all those unfaithful to you.

Isaiah 57:3

But as for you, children of fortune-tellers, the product of adultery and prostitution—come here!

Jeremiah 2:2

Go and announce to the people of Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember when you were young how devoted to me you were. I remember how you loved me when you were my bride. I remember how you followed me in the desert, in a land where nothing is grown.

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a temporary shelter in the desert—I would give up on my people and leave them, because they're all adulterers, a bunch of traitors!

Ezekiel 16:32

You're a wife that loves adultery! You sleep with strangers instead of your husband!

Hosea 3:1

The Lord told me, “Go again and love a woman who is loved by another and who is committing adultery, just as the Lord loves the children of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and love their sensual worship.”

Matthew 12:39

“An evil and adulterous generation are the ones who look for a miraculous sign. The only sign they will be given is the sign of the prophet Jonah,” Jesus told them.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation are the ones who look for a miraculous sign, and no sign will be given to them except the sign of Jonah.” He left them and went away.

Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters. Either you'll hate one and love the other, or you'll be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Money.

Luke 19:27

And as for my enemies who didn't want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”

John 15:19

If you were part of this world, it would love you as its own. But you're not part of the world, and I chose you out of the world—that's why the world hates you.

John 17:14

I gave them your message, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I'm not of the world.

John 7:7

The world has no reason to hate you, but it does hate me, because I make it clear that its ways are evil.

Romans 5:10

While we were his enemies, God made us his friends through the death of his Son, and so we can be absolutely sure that he will save us through the life of his Son.

Romans 8:7

The sinful human mind is hostile to God because it refuses to obey the law of God—in fact it never can,

1 Corinthians 1:20

So how about the wise, the writers, and the philosophers of this age? Hasn't God turned the wisdom of this world into foolishness?

1 Corinthians 1:21

Since God in his wisdom allowed the world in its wisdom not to know God, it was God's gracious plan that by the foolishness of the good news those who trusted in him would be saved.

Galatians 1:10

Whose approval do you think I want—that of people, or of God? Do you think I'm trying to please people? If I wanted to please people I wouldn't be a servant of Christ!

James 1:27

In the eyes of our God and Father, religion that's pure and genuine is to visit orphans and widows in their suffering, and to keep yourself from being contaminated by the world.