1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?stylus1 Peter 2:11, 1 Peter 2:11, Galatians 5:17, Galatians 5:17, Romans 7:232You 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.stylusJohn 16:24, John 16:24, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8, Matthew 7:73And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.stylus1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 3:22, 1 John 3:22, James 1:64You adulteresses! 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 an enemy of God.stylus1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:16, Romans 8:75Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?stylus2 Corinthians 6:16, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 6:19, Numbers 11:296But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”stylusMatthew 23:12, Matthew 23:12, Proverbs 3:34, Proverbs 3:34, 1 Peter 5:57Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.stylus1 Peter 5:8, 1 Peter 5:9, 1 Peter 5:8, 1 Peter 5:9, Ephesians 4:278Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.stylusPsalms 145:18, Psalms 145:18, Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 10:22, Malachi 3:79Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.stylusMatthew 5:4, Matthew 5:4, 2 Corinthians 7:10, 2 Corinthians 7:11, 2 Corinthians 7:1010Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.stylusPsalms 147:6, Psalms 147:6, Matthew 23:12, Matthew 23:12, 1 Peter 5:611Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.stylus1 Peter 2:1, 1 Peter 2:1, Romans 2:1, Romans 2:1, James 5:912There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?stylusRomans 14:4, Romans 14:4, Romans 2:1, Romans 2:1, Matthew 10:2813Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”stylusProverbs 27:1, Proverbs 27:1, Luke 12:17, Luke 12:20, Luke 12:1714You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.stylus1 Peter 1:24, 1 Peter 1:24, Psalms 39:5, Psalms 39:5, 1 John 2:1715Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”stylusProverbs 19:21, Proverbs 19:21, Hebrews 6:3, Hebrews 6:3, Lamentations 3:3716As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.stylusProverbs 27:1, Proverbs 27:1, 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 5:6, Psalms 52:717Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.stylusJohn 9:41, John 9:41, John 13:17, John 13:17, John 15:22