14 But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.(A)

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14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.(A) 15 Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.(B) 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.

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Proud or Humble

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions(A) that wage war within you?[a] You 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. You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.(B)

You 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

  1. 4:1 Or war in your members
  2. 4:2 Or You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war.
  3. 4:4 Lit Adulteresses

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