Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmityG2189 against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
G2189 - hostility; by implication a reason for opposition: - enmity, hatred.
All humanity in the carnal flesh are enmity - hostile - hate God, that makes us His enemy. It is not until the Spirit indwells and we join with God then He takes this hostility away.
John 15:18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
v. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
1John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in Him.
James 4:4 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.
friend n 1 : one attached to another by respect or affection 2 : acquaintance 3 : one who is not hostile 4 : one who supports or favors something <a ~ of art> 5 cap : a member of the Society of Friends.
We live in the world and do not need to avoid contact with other people, but we cannot be "friends" with the world or to me that means desire or enjoy the ways of the world.
2Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
v. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
v. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: "The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire."
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Kat