James 3:17-4:7

English Standard Version

¹⁷ But ^(A)the wisdom from above is first pure, then ^(B)peaceable, gentle, open to reason, ^(C)full of mercy and good fruits, ^(D)impartial and ^(E)sincere. ¹⁸ And ^(F)a harvest of righteousness ^(G)is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Warning Against Worldliness

4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions^[a] are ^(H)at war within you?^{[b] 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 ^(I)wrongly, to spend it on your passions. ^4 (J)You adulterous people!^[c] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(K)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^(L)that he has made to dwell in us”? ⁶ But ^(M)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^(N)“God opposes the proud but ^(O)gives grace to the humble.” ⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. ^(P)Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.