James 4:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

Cross References

Romans 8:7

For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

Galatians 1:10

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other — you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

John 17:14

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

James 1:27

Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.

Romans 5:10

If we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son when we were enemies, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Matthew 16:4

"It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, and no Sign shall be given to it except the Sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away.

John 7:7

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

Luke 19:27

And now for these enemies of mine who objected to me reigning over them — bring them here and slay them in my presence.' "

Matthew 12:39

He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;

1 Corinthians 1:20

Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.