Text -- James 4:1-4 (NET)

Passions and Pride

4:1 Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? 4:2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 4:3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions. 4:4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jam 4:1

¹ tn The word “where” is repeated in Greek for emphasis.

² tn Grk “from here.”

³ tn Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”

NET Notes: Jam 4:4

¹ tn Grk “is hostility toward God.”