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James 4:1-6 Testing Our Faith

1 Submit Yourselves to God
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?

2 You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.

3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?

6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”

Cross References for James 4:1-6

John 8:44 - You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a ... Click to read the verse John 8:44 Click to read the verse John 8:44

Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Click to read the verse Jeremiah 17:9 Click to read the verse Jeremiah 17:9

Matthew 15:19 - For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false test... Click to read the verse Matthew 15:19 Click to read the verse Matthew 15:19

Mark 7:21-23 - For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adu... Click to read the verse Mark 7:21-23 Click to read the verse Mark 7:21-23

Titus 3:3 - At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions an... Click to read the verse Titus 3:3 Click to read the verse Titus 3:3

Genesis 13:7 - And quarreling arose between Abram’s herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Periz... Click to read the verse Genesis 13:7 Click to read the verse Genesis 13:7

Proverbs 20:3 - It is to a man’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. Click to read the verse Proverbs 20:3 Click to read the verse Proverbs 20:3

1 Peter 2:11 - Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires,... Click to read the verse 1 Peter 2:11 Click to read the verse 1 Peter 2:11

Colossians 3:5 - Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, ... Click to read the verse Colossians 3:5 Click to read the verse Colossians 3:5

1 Peter 4:2-3 - As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather f... Click to read the verse 1 Peter 4:2-3 Click to read the verse 1 Peter 4:2-3

1 Timothy 3:3 - not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. Click to read the verse 1 Timothy 3:3 Click to read the verse 1 Timothy 3:3

Romans 8:7 - the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Click to read the verse Romans 8:7 Click to read the verse Romans 8:7

Romans 6:13 - Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer your... Click to read the verse Romans 6:13 Click to read the verse Romans 6:13

1 John 2:15-17 - Do Not Love the World Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world... Click to read the verse 1 John 2:15-17 Click to read the verse 1 John 2:15-17

Galatians 5:17 - For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary t... Click to read the verse Galatians 5:17 Click to read the verse Galatians 5:17

Proverbs 13:10 - Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. Click to read the verse Proverbs 13:10 Click to read the verse Proverbs 13:10

2 Peter 2:18 - For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human n... Click to read the verse 2 Peter 2:18 Click to read the verse 2 Peter 2:18

2 Peter 3:3 - First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and follow... Click to read the verse 2 Peter 3:3 Click to read the verse 2 Peter 3:3

James 4:3 - When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what y... Click to read the verse James 4:3 Click to read the verse James 4:3

James 1:14 - but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Click to read the verse James 1:14 Click to read the verse James 1:14

Genesis 4:5-8 - but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face w... Click to read the verse Genesis 4:5-8 Click to read the verse Genesis 4:5-8

Psalms 68:30 - Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, m... Click to read the verse Psalms 68:30 Click to read the verse Psalms 68:30

James 3:14-18 - But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or den... Click to read the verse James 3:14-18 Click to read the verse James 3:14-18

Proverbs 10:12 - Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs. Click to read the verse Proverbs 10:12 Click to read the verse Proverbs 10:12

Romans 7:23 - but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind ... Click to read the verse Romans 7:23 Click to read the verse Romans 7:23

1 Peter 1:14 - As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. Click to read the verse 1 Peter 1:14 Click to read the verse 1 Peter 1:14

Titus 3:9 - But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, becau... Click to read the verse Titus 3:9 Click to read the verse Titus 3:9

Mark 7:20 - He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ Click to read the verse Mark 7:20 Click to read the verse Mark 7:20

Romans 7:5 - For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were a... Click to read the verse Romans 7:5 Click to read the verse Romans 7:5

Jude 1:16-18 - These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about ... Click to read the verse Jude 1:16-18 Click to read the verse Jude 1:16-18

1 Timothy 6:4-10 - he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quar... Click to read the verse 1 Timothy 6:4-10 Click to read the verse 1 Timothy 6:4-10