James 4:1-3

Warning Against Worldliness

4:1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[1] are at war within you?[2] 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Footnotes

  1. Greek pleasures; also verse 3
  2. Greek in your members

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