James 4:4
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.
Studiennotiz
Study Note
James's sharp address 'Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?' invokes the prophetic metaphor of marital infidelity to describe spiritual unfaithfulness. The 'adultery' language (moichalides) draws on the OT prophets — Hosea, Jeremiah 3, and Ezekiel 16 — who consistently used the marriage covenant to image the God-Israel relationship, so that idolatry or worldliness constitutes a form of covenant adultery. The 'friendship of the world' (philia tou kosmou) is not mere cultural engagement but alliance with the value system that sets itself against God — the same 'world' that 1 John 2:15-16 catalogues as lust of flesh, lust of eyes, and pride of life. Matthew 6:24's 'no man can serve two masters' and Romans 8:7's 'the carnal mind is enmity against God' provide canonical parallels to James's either/or of friendship-with-world versus friendship-with-God.
Andere Übersetzungen
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
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.
Querverweise
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise …
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from …
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy …
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and …
Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to …
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he …
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no …