James 4:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; They will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel.

Psalm 21:8

For the king trusts in the Lord, stands firm through the mercy of the Most High.

Psalm 50:18

If you see a thief, you run with him; with adulterers you throw in your lot.

Psalm 73:27

But those who are far from you perish; you destroy those unfaithful to you.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!

Jeremiah 2:2

Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the wilderness, in a land unsown.

Jeremiah 9:2

They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with lying, and not with truth, they are powerful in the land. They go from evil to evil, and me they do not know—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:32

Adulterous wife, taking strangers in place of her husband!

Hosea 3:1

Again the Lord said to me: Go, love a woman who is loved by her spouse but commits adultery; Just as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.

Matthew 12:39

He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away. The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Dependence on God.

Luke 19:27

Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me.’” The Entry into Jerusalem.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

John 17:14

I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify to it that its works are evil.

Romans 5:10

Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Romans 8:7

For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now currying favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. His Call by Christ.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.