James 4:4
James · New Testament · Chapter 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.”James 4:4
What Does James 4:4 Mean?
James 4:4 is found in the book of James, chapter 4, verse 4 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to James 4:4 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Romans 12:2“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”1 John 2:15“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”2 Corinthians 6:14“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”Romans 8:7“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”Matthew 6:24“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”Galatians 1:10“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”John 15:19“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”John 17:14“I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”James 1:27“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”John 15:23“He that hateth me hateth my Father also.”Luke 6:26“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”Romans 5:10“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”Psalms 73:27“For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.”Mark 8:38“Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”Hosea 3:1“Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.”Luke 16:13“No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”Matthew 16:4“A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.”John 7:7“The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.”John 15:18“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.”2 Corinthians 13:5“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”
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