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. ⁴^aYou adulterous people!³ Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^bTherefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^cthat he has made to dwell in us”? ⁶But ^dhe gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^e“God opposes the proud but ^dgives grace to the humble.” ⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. ^fResist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸^gDraw near to God, and he will draw near to you. ^hCleanse your hands, you sinners, and ⁱpurify your hearts, ^jyou double-minded. ⁹^kBe wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰^lHumble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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James 4:10: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Footnotes

1Greek pleasures; also verse 3
2Greek in your members
3Or You adulteresses!

Cross references

y Rom. 7:23; 1 Pet. 2:11
z[1 John 5:14]
a Isa. 54:5; Jer. 2:2
b John 15:19; 1 John 2:15; [Matt. 6:24]
c 1 Cor. 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16
d Isa. 54:7, 8; See Matt. 13:12
e 1 Pet. 5:5; Cited from Prov. 3:34 (Gk.)
f 1 Pet. 5:8, 9; [Eph. 4:27; 6:11]
g 2 Chr. 15:2; Lam. 3:57; Zech. 1:3; Mal. 3:7; [Luke 15:20]
h Isa. 1:16
i Jer. 4:14
jch. 1:8
k[Matt. 5:4]
lver. 6; Isa. 57:15; [Luke 1:52]; See Matt. 23:12