Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Whosoever

General references

Bible References

Adulterers

Psalm 50:18
“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
And you associate with adulterers.
Psalm 73:27
For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.
Isaiah 57:3
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress,
Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.
Hosea 3:1
Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
Matthew 12:39
But He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet 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 a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away.

The friendship

John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Enmity

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
Romans 8:7
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

Whosoever

Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

Is the

Psalm 21:8
Your hand will find out all your enemies;
Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
Luke 19:27
But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.”
John 15:23
He who hates Me hates My Father also.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

General references

Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.