Adulterous people, don’t y’all know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes themselves an enemy of God.
For am I now seeking the favor of humans or of God? Or am I striving to please humans? For if I were still pleasing humans, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
If y’all were of the world, the world would love its own. But because y’all are not of the world, since I chose y’all out of the world, the world hates y’all.
“No one can serve two masters, for a person will hate the one and love the other, or else be devoted to one and despise the other. Y’all can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of ʜɪꜱ Son, how much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Then he left them and departed.
YHWH said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another, and is an adulteress, just as YHWH loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
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.
“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘YHWH 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.
For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.