James 4:1-5 Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence––due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members?

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence––due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members? ² Ye covet––and have not, ye commit murder, and are jealous––and cannot obtain,––ye fight and war. Ye have not––because ye do not really ask, ³ Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend [it]. ⁴ Adulteresses! Know ye not that, the friendship of the world, is, enmity to God? Whosoever, therefore, is minded to be, a friend, of the world, an enemy of God, doth constitute himself. ⁵ Or think ye that, in vain, the scripture speaketh? Is it, for envying, that the spirit which hath taken an abode within us doth crave?