What causes Fights and Quarrels among you?
Don’t they come from your Desires
That Battle within you?
2 You Desire but you do not have,
So you kill.
You Covet but you cannot get what you want,
So you Quarrel and Fight.
You do not have
Because you do not Ask God.
3 When you Ask, you do not Receive,
Because you Ask with Wrong Motives,
That you may Spend what you get
On your Pleasures.
4 You Adulterous People,
Don‘t you know
That Friendship with the World
Means Enmity Against God?
Therefore, anyone who Chooses
To be a Friend of the World
Becomes an Enemy of God.
5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason
That He Jealously Longs for the Spirit
He has Caused to Dwell in us?
6 But He Gives us more Grace.
That is why Scripture says:
“God Opposes the Proud
But Shows Favor to the Humble.”
(James 4:1-6, NIV)
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