James 4:1-4

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4 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions^(A) that wage war within you?^[a] ²You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war.^[b] You do not have because you do not ask. ³You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.^(B)

⁴You adulterous people!^[c] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.^(C)

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Footnotes

4:1 Or war in your members
4:2 Or You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war.
4:4 Lit Adulteresses

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