Give Yourselves to God

4 Do you know where your ·fights [conflicts; wars] and ·arguments [disputes; quarrels; battles] come from? They come from ·the selfish desires [cravings] that war ·within you [^Lin your members; ^Cprobably parts of the body, but could be members of the church]. ² You ·want [desire] things, but you ·do not [or cannot] have them. So you ·are ready to kill [^Lmurder] and are ·jealous [envious] of other people, but you still cannot get what you want. So you argue and ·fight [wage war]. You do not get what you want, because you do not ask God. ³ Or when you ask, you do not receive because ·the reason you ask is wrong [or you ask with the wrong motives; ^Lyou ask badly/wrongly]. You want things so you ·can use [^Lspend] them for your own pleasures.

⁴ ·So, you are not loyal to God [^LYou adulterers!; ^Coften adultery is used in a spiritual sense for betraying God; Jer. 3:20]! ·You should know [^LDon’t you know…?] that ·loving [^Lfriendship with] the world is ·the same as hating [^Lhostility/enmity toward] God. Anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes God’s enemy.