Religion & Spirituality
James 4:1-4 New King James Version (NKJV) Pride Promotes Strife 4 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet[a] 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 pleasures. 4 Adulterers and[b] adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Footnotes: James 4:2 NU-Text and M-Text omit Yet. James 4:4 NU-Text omits Adulterers and.