Jam 4:1-2, 5-6, 1Pe 2:1-2 | ESV | STEP | What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you ? Is it not this , that your passions are at war within you ?

b Rom. 7:23; 1 Pet. 2:11

d 1 Cor. 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16

e Isa. 54:7, 8; See Matt. 13:12

f 1 Pet. 5:5; Cited from Prov. 3:34 (Gk.)

g Isa. 54:7, 8; See Matt. 13:12

h Eph. 4:22, 25, 31; Col. 3:8

iSee Matt. 18:3

j 1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5:12, 13

James 4:1-2

Warning Against Worldliness

1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions ^{▼▼Greek pleasures; also verse 3} are ^bat war within you? ^{▼▼Greek in your members} 2 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.

James 4:5-6

5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^dthat he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But ^ehe gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^f“God opposes the proud but ^ggives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 2:1-2

A Living Stone and a Holy People

1 ^hSo put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 ⁱLike newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual ^jmilk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—