James 4:1-7 WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members?

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members? ² You long for something and do not have it. You murder and envy and cannot obtain it. You battle and war. You do not have, because of your not asking. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask wickedly to waste it on your pleasures. ⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever chooses to be a friend to the world stands as an enemy of God. ⁵ Do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which he made dwell in us long enviously? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." ⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.