James 4:1-3

Warning Against Worldliness

¹ What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions ₁ are _y at war within you? ₂ 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. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask _z wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

1. Cross References
   Romans 7:23
   But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
   1 Peter 2:11
   Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
   
2. Cross References
   1 John 5:14
   And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.