¹⁶For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. ¹⁷But ^rthe wisdom from above is first pure, then ^speaceable, gentle, open to reason, ^tfull of mercy and good fruits, ^uimpartial and ^vsincere. ¹⁸And ^wa harvest of righteousness ^xis sown in peace by those who make peace.

Warning Against Worldliness

4What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions¹ are ^yat war within you?² ²You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^zwrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Read in Logos

James 3:17: But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Footnotes

1Greek pleasures; also verse 3
2Greek in your members

Cross references

r[1 Cor. 2:6, 7]
s Heb. 12:11
t[Luke 6:36]
uch. 2:4 (Gk.)
v Rom. 12:9
w Prov. 11:18; Isa. 32:17; Hos. 10:12; Amos 6:12; Phil. 1:11
x Matt. 5:9; Gal. 6:7, 8
y Rom. 7:23; 1 Pet. 2:11
z[1 John 5:14]