James 4:1-6

Are Wrong Motives A Part Of Your Prayer Life, Pride Vs. Humility. Who Wins?

HiS PRINT Ministries · (114) James 4:1 - 6

Drawing Close to God

1What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 2You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

4You adulterers!a Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him.b 6And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,

“God opposes the proud

but gives grace to the humble.”c