Warning Against Worldliness
1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions4:1 Greek pleasures; also verse 3 are Rom. 7:23;1 Pet. 2:11at war within you?4:1 Greek in your members2 You 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. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask [1 John 5:14]wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 Isa. 54:5;Jer. 2:2You adulterous people!4:4 Or You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? John 15:19;1 John 2:15;[Matt. 6:24]Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit 1 Cor. 6:19;2 Cor. 6:16that he has made to dwell in us"? 6 But Isa. 54:7,8;See Matt. 13:12he gives more grace. Therefore it says, 1 Pet. 5:5;Cited from Prov. 3:34(Gk.)"God opposes the proud but Isa. 54:7,8;See Matt. 13:12gives grace to the humble."