James 4:1-5

¹What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’ t they come from the passions at war within you?

²You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

³And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

⁴You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

⁵Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

— James 4:1-5

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Cross References for James 4:1-5

• Romans 8:7
• 1 John 2:15-16
• John 15:19
• Matthew 6:24
• Galatians 1:10
• 2 Corinthians 6:16
• 1 Peter 2:11
• 1 John 5:14
• John 16:24
• 1 Corinthians 6:19

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