James 4:4
O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
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Genesis 3:15And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Psalms 50:18When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
Isaiah 57:3But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Jeremiah 9:2If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
Matthew 6:24No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Matthew 16:4An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →