James 4:1-3

Proud or Humble

1 What is the source of the wars and the fights among you? Don't they come from the cravings that are at war within you?[a]
2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and don't receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend it on your desires for pleasure.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit war in your members
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