James 4:1-8 Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members ² Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures. ⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God. ⁵ Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us? ⁶ And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ⁷ Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.