James 4:4

Warning Against Worldliness

⁴ _a You adulterous people! ₁ Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? _b Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 54:5
   For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
   Jeremiah 2:2
   Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
   
2. Cross References
   John 15:19
   If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
   1 John 2:15
   Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
   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.