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.

Commentaries

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A.T. Robertson

A.T. Robertson

A.T.Robertson

19th Century
Southern Baptist
19th Century

Ye adultere es (μοιχαλιδες). Μοιχο κα (ye adulterers) is spurious (Syrian text only). The feminine form here is a common late word…

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Ye adulterers and adultresses. These words are frequently used to denote those who are faithless towards God, and are frequently applied t…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Ye adulterers and adulteresses.—The phrase may seem to flow naturally after the former ones, but the Received Text, from …

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

CharlesSpurgeon

19th Century
Baptist
19th Century

You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?

The apostle uses this strong …

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor'sBible Commentary

20th Century
20th Century

Having identified the source of the bitter fighting as being the desire for pleasure, James next rebukes his readers for spiritual unfaithfulness. …

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Ye adulterers. I connect this verse with the preceding ones; for he calls them adulterers, as I think, metaphorically, because th…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

You adulterers and adulteresses
Not who were literally such, but in a figurative and metaphorical sense: as he is an…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Since all wars and fighting come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in our members. Worldly and fl…

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