James 4:1-4 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn’t it because there is a whole army of evil desires within you? V2 You want what you don’t have, so you kill to get it. You long for what others have, and can’t afford it, so you start a fight to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don’t have what you want is that you don’t ask God for it.
V3 And even when you do ask you don’t get it because your whole aim is wrong- you want only what will give you pleasure.
V4 You are like an unfaithful wife who loves her husband enemies. Don’t you realize that making friends with God’ enemies- the evil pleasures of this world- makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy the evil pleasures of the unsaved world, you cannot also be a friend of God.
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