 | William Mason - 1765 - 526 pages
...Jesus above all ; we dare not forsake him, nor incur our Father's displeasure. We know " the friendship of the world is enmity with God." " Whosoever therefore...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God," James iv. 4. MAY 31. — In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...the Scripture as opposition to God. St. James, addressing himself to conforming professors, saith, "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." If our chief happiness be in the things of the world, and if we court the friendship of wicked men... | |
 | 310 pages
...and safe in which a mental standard and mental abilities are more or less regarded ? Ye adulterers! " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God ! " (James iv.) Jezebel's sin, the Son of God calls "fornication" — that is her sin, as one unmarried.... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...the world : therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.' — 1st John, ir. 5. -' Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.' — James, iv. 4. ' Be not conformed to this world : but be ye transformed by the renewing of your... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...ask not : 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss; that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy ? 6... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 584 pages
...God, and the good of others, but only to spend it upon your own intemperate lusts and pleasures. IV. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...•will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. O ye vain men, that are thus palpably corrupted with the love of the world, having formerly plighted... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 622 pages
...are in the world. If any man love the world, the "love of the Father is not in himf." " Know you " not, that the friendship of the world, is enmity with...will, be a friend of the " world, is the enemy of God J." * Prov. xi. 4. +1 John, ii. 15. J James, iv. 4t VOL. II. SC 3. A man is deemed wise who has considerable... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 520 pages
...observes, that a man must necessarily be the enemy of the true God, if he be a friend of the world. " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." James iv. All the sin that men commit, is what they do in the service of their idols : There is no... | |
 | An inquirer - 1809 - 158 pages
...have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight, and war, and yet ye have not." " Ye adulterers, and adulteresses ! know ye not that...with God ? whosoever, therefore, will be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God." From this we think it evidently appears, that the warlike spirit... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 586 pages
...ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. xai ov SvvaaOe xai TO on* OlttUJ6au I'f -i AlTEtTf, XOU OV iva ev Toug y&ovat$ v •i Moi^ot xai ovx... | |
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