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frenemy

James 4:4-6 (JDV)

James 4:4 You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility with God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
James 4:5 Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The breath he made to dwell in us envies intensely?
James 4:6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

frenemy

When it comes to friendship, God does not like it when we try to take both sides of the road. Either we love God or we do not, and he knows when we are pretending. He does not want a frenemy. Every breath that we breathe yearns for God — not the world or its treasures.