James 4:1 – 6

¹What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?  Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?  ²You 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.  ³You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.  ⁴You adulterous people!  Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?  Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.  ⁵Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?  ⁶But he gives more grace.  Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”