FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD

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)