New American Standard Bible 2020

James 4:1-5

1 1WhatG4159 is the sourceG4159 of quarrelsG4171 and 2conflictsG3163 amongG1722 you? 3Is the sourceG1782 not your pleasuresG2237 that wageG4754 4warG4754 in 5your body’s partsG3196?

2You lustG1937 and do not haveG2192, so you 6commitG5407 murderG5407. And you areG2206 enviousG2206 and cannotG1410 G3756 obtainG2013, so you fightG3164 and quarrelG4170. You do not haveG2192 becauseG1223 you do not askG154.

3You askG154 and 7do not receiveG2983, becauseG1360 you askG154 8with the wrongG2560 motivesG2560, soG2443 thatG2443 you may spendG1159 what you request 9on your pleasuresG2237.

4You 10adulteressesG3428, do you not knowG3609 that friendshipG5373 with 11the worldG2889 is 12hostilityG2189 toward GodG2316? 13ThereforeG3767 whoeverG3739 G1437 wantsG1014 to be a friendG5384 of the worldG2889 makesG2525 himself an enemyG2190 of GodG2316.

5OrG2228 do you thinkG1380 that the ScriptureG1124 14saysG3004 toG2761 noG2761 purposeG2761, “15He 16jealouslyG5355 desiresG1971 17the SpiritG4151 whomG3739 He has madeG2733 toG2733 dwellG2733 in us”?

Notes

1. James 4:1 Lit From where wars and from where fightings ↩
2. James 4:1 Titus 3:9 ↩
3. James 4:1 Lit Are they not from here, from your ↩
4. James 4:1 Rom 7:23 ↩
5. James 4:1 Lit your parts ↩
6. James 4:2 James 5:6; 1 John 3:15 ↩
7. James 4:3 1 John 3:22; 5:14 ↩
8. James 4:3 Lit wrongly ↩
9. James 4:3 Lit in ↩
10. James 4:4 Jer 2:2; Ezek 16:32 ↩
11. James 4:4 James 1:27 ↩
12. James 4:4 Rom 8:7; 1 John 2:15 ↩
13. James 4:4 Matt 6:24; John 15:19 ↩
14. James 4:5 Num 23:19 ↩
15. James 4:5 Or The spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy ↩
16. James 4:5 Lit desires to jealousy ↩
17. James 4:5 1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 6:16 ↩