What is…
enmity

deep-rooted hatred

This word is first mentioned in Genesis immediately after man’s fall to sin.

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.” —Genesis 3:15

Worldliness and true followers of Christ

“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.” —1 John 2:15-16

“You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.” —James 4:4

The carnal mind is at enmity against God

“because the mind set on the flesh is at enmity toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so” —Romans 8:7

Enmity between Jews and Gentiles

The “enmity” between Jew and Gentile is removed through the Gospel. They are reconciled, are “made one” in God’s Church of true Christians.

“by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might create the two into one new man, making peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having in Himself put to death the enmity.” —Ephesians 2:15-16