James 4:4

New Living Translation

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

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

Psalm 21:8

You will capture all your enemies. Your strong right hand will seize all who hate you.

Psalm 50:18

When you see thieves, you approve of them, and you spend your time with adulterers.

Psalm 73:27

Those who desert him will perish, for you destroy those who abandon you.

Isaiah 57:3

“But you—come here, you witches’ children, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says: “I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I could go away and forget my people and live in a travelers’ shack in the desert. For they are all adulterers— a pack of treacherous liars.

Ezekiel 16:32

Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.

Hosea 3:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.”

Matthew 12:39

But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Matthew 16:4

Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign, but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Then Jesus left them and went away.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.

Luke 19:27

And as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in front of me.’”

John 15:19

The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 7:7

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.

Romans 5:10

For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son.

Romans 8:7

For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.

1 Corinthians 1:20

So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish.

1 Corinthians 1:21

Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.

Galatians 1:10

Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.

James 1:27

Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.