¹ Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from this, namely, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

² You covet, and you have nothing; you kill, and you are envious, and you can achieve nothing; You fight and make war, and you have nothing, because you do not ask.

³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity against God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world constitutes himself an enemy of God.

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain: The Spirit that dwells in us is jealous?

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

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and, you of two minds, purify your hearts.

⁹ Feel your miseries, and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into weeping, and your joy into sorrow.

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

James 4:1-10