1 Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?
2 You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask.
3 You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4 Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, “The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy”?
6 But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says:“God resists the proud,but gives grace to the humble.”
7 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.