James 4:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend 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 seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Psalm 21:8

Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.

Psalm 50:18

If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.

Psalm 73:27

For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish; thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Ezekiel 16:32

Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

Hosea 3:1

And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

Matthew 12:39

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.

Matthew 6:24

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

Luke 19:27

But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 7:7

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

Romans 5:10

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

Romans 8:7

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;

1 Corinthians 1:20

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

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.