James 4:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
James 4:1 NLT
What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?
James 4:3 NLT
And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
James 4:6 NLT
And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:15 NLT
What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:16 NLT
Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.