James 4:1-10

1What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?

2You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.

3You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

4You adulterous people! 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.

5Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?

6But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

7Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

9Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.