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Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God?[a] So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.

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  1. James 4:4 tn Grk “is hostility toward God.”

You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D)

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  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.