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.



Ver. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses] You that have your hearts full of harlotry, that go a whoring from God after the creature, that mind only earthly things, Php_3:19, and woo this Mundus immundus, this Propudium, this vile strumpet the world, that lays forth her two breasts of profit and pleasure, and ensnareth many; for the which she must be burnt, as a whore, by the fire of the last day.



Know ye not] Worldlings care not to know anything more than how to get, &c., their wits serve them not for better things; they cannot skill of these Scripture matters; they are brutishly ignorant of God and his will, of themselves and their duties.



Is enmity with God] That such both hate God, and, interchangeably, are hated of God.