The Friendship of God

The Appearance of this Concept in Holy Writ. The Appearance of this Concept in Holy Writ. The word "friendship" occurs but once in the Scriptures, and then as a friendship of the world, in 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." The word, friend, on the other hand, occurs repeatedly in the Word of God, in both the Old Testament and New Testament. In the...