James 4:4

World Messianic Bible British Edition

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Psalm 21:8

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

Psalm 50:18

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Psalm 73:27

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

Isaiah 57:3

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Ezekiel 16:32

“‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Hosea 3:1

The LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children 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 after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” 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 else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Luke 19:27

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill 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, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 7:7

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Romans 5:10

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

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God, for it is not subject to God’s Torah, neither indeed can it be.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the proclaiming to save those who believe.

Galatians 1:10

For am I now seeking the favour of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Messiah.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.