1 Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your body?
2 You lust and do not have, so you kill. You desire to have and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have, because you do not ask.
3 You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us”?
6 But He gives more grace. For this reason it says: “God resists the proud,but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.