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129Friendship with World Is EnmityToward GodJas . 4 :4 "Adulteresses, do younot know that the friendship withthe world is enmity with God?Whoever, therefore, wants to bea friend of the world is constitutinghimself an enemy of God ."1 John 2 :15 "Do not be lovingeither the world or the thingsin the world. If anyone loves theworld, the love of the Father isnot in him ."Christian Must Not Even Take aCourse Parallel to This WorldRom. 6 :13-16 "Neither go onpresenting your members to sinas weapons of unrighteousness,but present yourselves to God asthose alive from the dead, alsoyour members to God as weaponsof righteousness. For sin must notbe master over you, seeing thatyou are not under law but underundeserved kindness . What follows?Shall we commit a sinbecause we are not under lawbut under undeserved kindness?Never may that happen! Do younot know that if you keep presentingyourselves to anyone asslaves to obey him, you are slavesof him because you obey him,either of sin with death in viewor of obedience with righteousnessin view?"Jas . 1 :27 "The form of worshipthat is clean and undefiled fromthe standpoint of our God andFather is this : to care for orphansand widows in their tribulation,and to keep oneself withoutspot from the world."Rom. 13 :14 "But put on theLord Jesus Christ, and do not beplanning ahead for the desires ofthe flesh ."Friendship with This World Resultsin Destruction with itIsa . 13 :11 "And I will punishthe world for their evil, and thewicked for their iniquity ; and Iwill cause the arrogancy of theproud to cease, and will lay lowthe haughtiness of the terrible ."Friendship with the WorldIsa . 24 :5, 6 "The earth also ispolluted under the inhabitantsthereof ; because they have transgressedthe laws, violated thestatutes, broken the everlastingcovenant . Therefore hath thecurse devoured the earth, andthey that dwell therein are foundguilty : therefore the inhabitantsof the earth are burned, and fewmen left."Matt. 16:26 "For what benefitwill it be to a man if he gainsthe whole world but forfeits hissoul? or what will a man give inexchange for his soul?"2 Pet. 2 :20 "Certainly if, afterhaving escaped from the defilementsof the world by an accurateknowledge of the Lord andSavior Jesus Christ, they get involvedagain with these verythings and are overcome, the finalconditions have become worse forthem than the first ."1 Cor. 11 :32 "However, whenwe are judged, we are disciplinedby Jehovah, that we may not becomecondemned with the world ."World's Manner of Thinking,Doing Things Will Pass Away1 Cor . 7 :31 "The scene of thisworld is changing ."Isa . 65 :17 "For, behold, I createnew heavens and a new earth ;and the former things shall notbe remembered, nor come intomind ."1 John 2 :17 "Furthermore, theworld is passing away and so isits desire, but he that does thewill of God remains forever ."Col. 2 :20 "If you died togetherwith Christ toward the elementarythings of the world, why doyou, as if living in the world,further subject yourselves to thedecrees?"Eph . 2 :1-3 "Furthermore, it isyou God made alive though youwere dead in your trespasses andsins, in which you at one timewalked according to the systemof things of this world, accordingto the ruler of the authorityof the air, the spirit that now