4 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?[a] 2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
4 Adulteresses![b][c] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy. 5 Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?[d]
6 But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:
7 Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people! 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver and judge[f] who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
1. What would life be like if God didn't give grace?
2. In verse 6 it says, God gives us greater grace. what are some ways we show grace?
3.In verse 6 What does it means when it says,'' God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble?
4. What does it mean when it says "be miserable and mourn and weep"?
5.What is the source wars among you ?
6. What do you think verse 3 means ?" you ask and you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives, so taht you may spend it on your evil desires'
