Sin And Friendship

Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἡ φιλία τοῦ κόσμου ἔχθρα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστιν; ὃς ἐὰν οὖν βουληθῇ φίλος εἶναι τοῦ κόσμου, ἐχθρὸς τοῦ θεοῦ καθίσταται Ὁ γὰρ δια τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν φιλῶν  τὸν κόσμον, ἐχθρὸς ἀποδείκνυται τοῦ Θεοῦ· ὡσαύτως καὶ ὁ τὴν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν φιλίαν δι' εὐσεβείας βεβαιῶν εὐθέως ἐχθρὸς εὐρισκεται τοῦ κόσμου. Ὅθεν ἀδύνατόν ἐστιν, ὥσπερ δουλεύειν Θεῷ καὶ Μαμμωνᾷ οὕτω φιλιάζειν Θεῷ καὶ κόσμῳ. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Την Ἰάκωβου Ἐπιστολὴ Migne PG 39.1754

'Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? He who then wishes to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.' 1   He who on account of sin loves the world is proved to be an enemy of God, as much as he who has friendship with God through firm piety is found to be in continual conflict with the world. Whence just as it is impossible to serve God and Mammon, 2 so it is to have friendship with God and the world. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on The Letter of James, fragment 1 Jam 4.4 2 Mt 6.24