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James 4:4–5

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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.
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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From verse 4

  1. 1 John 2:15–16Rank 1 from verse 4
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    15Love 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.

    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

  2. Romans 8:7Rank 2 from verse 4
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    7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

  3. John 15:19Rank 3 from verse 4
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    19If 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.

  4. Matthew 6:24Rank 4 from verse 4
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    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.

  5. Galatians 1:10Rank 5 from verse 4
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    10For 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.

  6. John 17:14Rank 6 from verse 4
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    14I 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.

  7. James 1:27Rank 7 from verse 4
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    27Pure 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.

  8. John 15:23–24Rank 8 from verse 4
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    23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

    24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

  9. Romans 5:10Rank 9 from verse 4
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    10For 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.

  10. Hosea 3:1Rank 10 from verse 4
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    1THEN 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.

  11. John 7:7Rank 11 from verse 4
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    7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

  12. Matthew 16:4Rank 12 from verse 4
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    4A 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.

  13. Psalms 73:27Rank 13 from verse 4
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    27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

  14. Luke 19:27Rank 14 from verse 4
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    27But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

  15. Matthew 12:39Rank 15 from verse 4
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    39But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

  16. Psalms 21:8Rank 16 from verse 4
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    8Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

  17. Psalms 50:18Rank 17 from verse 4
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    18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

  18. Jeremiah 9:2Rank 18 from verse 4
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    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  19. Isaiah 57:3Rank 19 from verse 4
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    3¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

  20. Genesis 3:15Rank 20 from verse 4
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    15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

  21. Jeremiah 2:2Rank 21 from verse 4
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    2Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

From verse 5

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:16Rank 1 from verse 5
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    16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  2. 1 Corinthians 6:19Rank 2 from verse 5
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    19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

  3. Numbers 11:29Rank 3 from verse 5
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    29And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

  4. Titus 3:3Rank 4 from verse 5
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    3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  5. Genesis 8:21Rank 5 from verse 5
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    21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

  6. Psalms 37:1Rank 6 from verse 5
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    1FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

  7. Genesis 6:5Rank 7 from verse 5
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    5¶ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

  8. Genesis 26:14Rank 8 from verse 5
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    14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

  9. Genesis 30:1Rank 9 from verse 5
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    1AND when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

  10. Genesis 37:11Rank 10 from verse 5
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    11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

  11. John 10:35Rank 11 from verse 5
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    35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

  12. Proverbs 21:10Rank 12 from verse 5
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    10The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

  13. Acts 7:9Rank 13 from verse 5
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    9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

  14. Ecclesiastes 4:4Rank 14 from verse 5
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    4¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  15. Galatians 3:8Rank 15 from verse 5
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    8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

  16. Genesis 4:5–6Rank 16 from verse 5
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    5But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

    6And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

  17. Psalms 106:16Rank 17 from verse 5
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    16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

  18. Romans 1:29Rank 18 from verse 5
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    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

  19. Isaiah 11:13Rank 19 from verse 5
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    13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

  20. Romans 9:17Rank 20 from verse 5
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    17For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

  21. John 19:37Rank 21 from verse 5
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    37And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

  22. John 7:42Rank 22 from verse 5
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    42Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

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James 4:4

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ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

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enmity

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Hostility, opposition, hatred, or the state of being enemies rather than at peace or reconciled.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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friend

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One joined to another by affection, goodwill, or alliance; to support or befriend.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

James 4:5

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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think

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1. To form or hold a thought. 2. To judge or suppose. 3. To intend. 4. To consider or remember. 5. To imagine or esteem.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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scripture

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The sacred writing or writings given by inspiration of God, whether taken collectively or as a particular passage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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vain

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Empty, fruitless, ineffective, unprofitable, worthless, false, unsubstantial, or conceited.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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spirit

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Sense 1: An immaterial living or personal being distinct from a body. Sense 2: The inward life, disposition, mind, or courage of a person. Sense 3: The Holy Spirit, the divine Spirit of God.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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envy

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Sense 1: Resentful desire at another's good. Sense 2: As a verb, to feel such jealousy.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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4:1FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

4:2Ye 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.

4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

4:4Ye 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.

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4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

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4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

4:7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

4:8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

4:9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

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