James 4:3-7
James 4:3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures.
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose, “He jealously desires the Spirit whom He has made to dwell in us”?
James 4:6
But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:7
Submit therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.