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 5 Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?D,f

6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says:

God resists the proud

but gives grace to the humble.E,g