James 4:1–4

PROUD OR HUMBLE

4 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passionsc that wage war within you?A 2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war.B You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.d

4 You adulterous people!C Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.e

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c	Ro 7:23 Tt 3:9
A	Or war in your members
B	Or You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war.
d	Ps 18:41 1 Jn 3:22 1 Jn 5:14
C	Lit Adulteresses
e	Jn 15:19 Jas 1:27 1 Jn 2:15