Desire divides the circle

Fights Come from Selfishness · James 4

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1From where come wars and from where come fights among you? Is it not from here—from your pleasures that wage war in your members?

2You desire and do not have; you murder and envy and are not able to obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.

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

4Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5Or do you think that the Scripture speaks in vain? The Spirit whom he caused to dwell in us yearns jealously.

6But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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