4Where do ¹wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure ^athat war in your members? ²You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and ²war. ³Yet you do not have because you do not ask. ³^bYou ask and do not receive, ^cbecause you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. ⁴⁴Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that ^dfriendship with the world is enmity with God? ^eWhoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, ^f“The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

⁶But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:

^g“God resists the proud,

But gives grace to the humble.”

Humility Cures Worldliness

⁷Therefore submit to God. ^hResist the devil and he will flee from you. ⁸ⁱDraw near to God and He will draw near to you. ^jCleanse your hands, you sinners; and ^kpurify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹^lLament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰^mHumble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

Read in Logos

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

Footnotes

1battles
2battle
3NU, M omit Yet
4NU omits Adulterers and

Cross references

a Rom. 7:23; [Gal. 5:17]; 1 Pet. 2:11
b Job 27:8, 9
c[Ps. 66:18]
d Rom. 8:7; 1 John 2:15
e Gal. 1:4
f Gen. 6:5
g Job 22:29; Ps. 138:6; Prov. 3:34; Matt. 23:12; 1 Pet. 5:5
h[Eph. 4:27; 6:11]; 1 Pet. 5:8
i 2 Chr. 15:2; Zech. 1:3; Mal. 3:7; Heb. 7:19
j Job 17:9; Is. 1:16; 1 Tim. 2:8
k Jer. 4:14; James 3:17; 1 Pet. 1:22; 1 John 3:3
l Matt. 5:4
m Job 22:29; Luke 14:11; 18:14; 1 Pet. 5:6