James 4:1-8 Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members? ² You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight — you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it; ³ you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures. ⁴ (Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God. ⁵ What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? — 'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.') ⁶ Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace. ⁷ Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you: ⁸ draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.