James 4:1–6 · BSB
4:1
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
4:2
You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
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4:3
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
4:5
Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
4:6
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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