James 4:4

Good News Translation

Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.”

Psalm 21:8

The king will capture all his enemies; he will capture everyone who hates him.

Psalm 50:18

You become the friend of every thief you see, and you associate with adulterers.

Psalm 73:27

Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

Isaiah 57:3

Come here to be judged, you sinners! You are no better than sorcerers, adulterers, and prostitutes.

Jeremiah 2:2

to proclaim this message to everyone in Jerusalem. “I remember how faithful you were when you were young, how you loved me when we were first married; you followed me through the desert, through a land that had not been planted.

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert where I could get away from my people. They are all unfaithful, a mob of traitors.

Ezekiel 16:32

You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.

Hosea 3:1

The Lord said to me, “Go again and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols.”

Matthew 12:39

“How evil and godless are the people of this day!” Jesus exclaimed. “You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of the prophet Jonah.

Matthew 16:4

How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah.” So he left them and went away.

Matthew 6:24

“You cannot be a slave of two masters; you will hate one and love the other; you will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Luke 19:27

Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in my presence!’”

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.

John 17:14

I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

Romans 5:10

We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!

Romans 8:7

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

1 Corinthians 1:20

So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skillful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!

1 Corinthians 1:21

For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called “foolish” message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.

Galatians 1:10

Does this sound as if I am trying to win human approval? No indeed! What I want is God's approval! Am I trying to be popular with people? If I were still trying to do so, I would not be a servant of Christ.

James 1:27

What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.