Adulteress, unfaithful one. Moichalis. James warns that friendship with the world makes one an adulteress toward God. Spiritual and physical faithfulness are inseparable. Guard both.

Fondness, friendship, love. Philía. Friendship with the world is enmity with God. Choose carefully what you grow fond of.

The world, the ordered universe. God so loved the kosmos. He loves what He made and He is working to redeem every part of it.

Hostility, enmity, opposition. Échthra. The carnal mind is enmity against God. Where hostility lives, reconciliation cannot. Put it to death.

God. Theos. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The ultimate reality. The source of all existence. Personal knowable and present.

To be, to exist. Eimi. When God names himself I AM, he uses this word. Existence itself belongs to him. Ground your identity in the one who simply is.

Who, which, that, the one who. He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. God finishes what He starts.

a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.; often used in connection with other particles to denote indefiniteness or uncertainty

Therefore, then, accordingly. Therefore since we have been justified through faith we have peace with God. The therefore of Scripture always builds on something God has already done.

To be willing. God is not willing that any should perish. His will is always toward life and salvation.

Friend, beloved companion. Philos. Abraham was called the friend of God, and Jesus named his disciples friends, not servants. To be known as philos by God is the highest standing a person can hold. Pursue that closeness.

To exist, to be. Eînai. "I AM" is the name God chose for himself, the ground of all existence. Every created thing exists only because he is.

Enemy, adversary, hostile. Echthros. Love your enemies. The command to love enemies is the most radical ethical demand in history. Only the grace of God makes it possible.

Appoint, constitute, set in place. Kathistēmi. God designates leaders; rulers are not self-made but placed. Walk worthy of the post you have been given.