...ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not; because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your pleasures. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture speaketh in vain...

...world. (6 Gal. 14.) 11. Is the friendship of the world totally incompatible with the love of God ? 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. (4 Jas. 4.) 12. How didSolomon sum up the total of all mere worldly...

...which is from above is pure, &c. without partiality, and without hypocrisy, &c. — James iii. 1 7. 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. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you, &c. Purify your...

...soldier. — 2 Tim. ii. 3, 4. In the last day, &c. men shall be lovers of their ownselves, &c. lovers 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, &c. of pleasures, more than lovers of God. Go to now, ye that say,...

...St. John, ' neither the things that are in the world ;' for as St. James assures us, ' the friendship of the world is enmity with God; whosoever, therefore, will be a friend to the world, is the enemy of God.' This hating the world is that death, St. Paul tells us, we pass through in baptism,...

...that 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 God? Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God J." * Prov. xi. 4. f 1 John ii. 15. J James iv. 4. 386 Of those from...

...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 friendship of the world is enmity withGod? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think...

...against God,' so those who are guilty of it, are called his enemies. ' Whosoever,' saith St. James, ' will be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God ;' and, by ' world,' he means the unlawful desire, or enjoyment of worldly things. St. Paul, in his...

...against God," so those who are guilty of it, are called his enemies. ' Whosoever,' saith St. James, ' will be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God ;' and, by ' world,' he means the unlawful desire, or enjoyment of worldly things. St. Paul, in his...

...against God,' so those who are guilty of it, are called his enemies. ' Whosoever,' saith St. James, ' will be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God ;' and, by ' world,' he means the unlawful desire, or enjoyment of worldly things. St. Paul, in his...