LEB(i)
2 You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?*
6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,
"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."* 7 Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."* 7 Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.