A Warning against Pride

4 What [causes] conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t [they] [come] from [the] passions at war within you 2 You crave [what] {you do} not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain [it]. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you {do} not ask. 3 [And when] you do ask {you do} not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander [it] on your pleasures.

4 [You] adulteresses![fn] Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility [toward] God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself[fn] an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason [that] the Spirit[fn] He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

6 But He gives [us] more grace. This is why it says: God opposes [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] humble.”[fn]