James 4:4 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world's friend is being God's enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

Common English Bible

⁴ You unfaithful people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.

James 4:4 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 12:39

But Jesus answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.” Then he left them and went away.

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 money.

Luke 19:27

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

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them yoʋr word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

John 7:7

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

Romans 5:10

For if, while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more will we be saved by his life now that we have been reconciled!

Romans 8:7

The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God; indeed, it is unable to do so.

1 Corinthians 1:20

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

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of our proclamation to save those who believe.

Galatians 1:10

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

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God our Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.