Warning Against Worldliness

¹What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions1 are yat war within you?2 ²You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask and do not receive, because you ask zwrongly, to spend it on your passions. ⁴aYou adulterous people!3 Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? bTherefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit cthat he has made to dwell in us”? ⁶But dhe gives more grace. Therefore it says, e“God opposes the proud but dgives grace to the humble.” ⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. fResist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸gDraw near to God, and he will draw near to you. hCleanse your hands, you sinners, and ipurify your hearts, jyou double-minded. ⁹kBe wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰lHumble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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