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1What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?[#4:1 Rm 7:23; Ti 3:9; #4:1 Or war in your members]
2You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.[#4:2 Or You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war.]
3You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.[#4:3 Ps 18:41; 1Jn 3:22; 5:14]
4You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.[#4:4 Lit Adulteresses; #4:4 Jn 15:19; Jms 1:27; 1Jn 2:15]
5Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely? ,[#4:5 Or Scripture says: He jealously yearns for the spirit he made to live in us? ; or Scripture says: The Spirit he made to dwell in us longs jealously?; #4:5 1Co 6:19; 2Co 6:16]
6But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says:
7Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.[#4:7 Eph 4:27; 6:11; 1Pt 5:8–9]
8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.[#4:8 2Ch 15:2; Is 1:16; Jms 1:8]
9Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.[#4:9 Mt 5:4; Lk 6:25]
10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11Don’t criticise one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.[#4:11 Or his brother or sister; #4:11 Mt 7:1; Jms 1:22; 1Pt 2:1]
12There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbour?[#4:12 Other mss omit and judge; #4:12 Mt 10:28; Rm 14:4]
13Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’[#4:13 Pr 27:1; Lk 12:18–20]
14Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.[#4:14 Jb 7:7; Ps 102:3]
15Instead, you should say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’
16But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.[#4:15–16 Ac 18:21; 1Co 5:6]
17So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.[#4:17 Lk 12:47–48; Jn 9:41; 2Pt 2:21]