Santiago 4:4

4 ¡Adúlteros!
¿No se dan cuenta de que la amistad con el mundo los convierte en enemigos de Dios? Lo repito: si alguien quiere ser amigo del mundo, se hace enemigo de Dios.

Santiago 4:4 Meaning and Commentary

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses
Not who were literally such, but in a figurative and metaphorical sense: as he is an adulterer that removes his affections from his own wife, and sets them upon another woman; and she is an adulteress that loves not her husband, but places her love upon another man; so such men and women are adulterers and adulteresses, who, instead of loving God, whom they ought to love with all their hearts and souls, set their affections upon the world, and the things of it: the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, leave out the word "adulteresses": these the apostle addresses in the following manner;

know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
that an immoderate love for the good things of the world, and a prevailing desire after the evil things of it, and a delight in the company and conversation of the men of the world, and a conformity to, and compliance with, the sinful manners and customs of the world, are so many declarations of war with God, and acts of hostility upon him; and show the enmity of the mind against him, and must be highly displeasing to him, and resented by him:

whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
God;
whoever is in league with the one must be an enemy to the other; God and mammon cannot be loved and served by the same persons, at the same time; the one will be loved, and the other hated; the one will be attended to, and the other neglected: this may be known both from reason and from Scripture, particularly from ( Matthew 6:24 ) .

Santiago 4:4 In-Context

2 Desean lo que no tienen, entonces traman y hasta matan para conseguirlo. Envidian lo que otros tienen, pero no pueden obtenerlo, por eso luchan y les hacen la guerra para quitárselo. Sin embargo, no tienen lo que desean porque no se lo piden a Dios.

3 Aun cuando se lo piden, tampoco lo reciben porque lo piden con malas intenciones: desean solamente lo que les dará placer.

4 ¡Adúlteros!
¿No se dan cuenta de que la amistad con el mundo los convierte en enemigos de Dios? Lo repito: si alguien quiere ser amigo del mundo, se hace enemigo de Dios.

5 ¿Qué creen ustedes que quieren decir las Escrituras cuando afirman que el espíritu que Dios ha puesto dentro de nosotros está lleno de envidia?

6 Sin embargo, él nos da aún más gracia, para que hagamos frente a esos malos deseos. Como dicen las Escrituras:
«Dios se opone a los orgullosos
pero muestra su favor a los humildes»
.