James 4:1-7 What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you? ² You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask. ³ You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures. ⁴ Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God. ⁵ Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of Scripture which asks--'Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?' ⁶ No; the gift that God gives is for a nobler end; and that is why it is said--'God is opposed to the haughty, but gives help to the humble.' ⁷ Therefore submit to God; but resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.