James 4:1-3 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

2. You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.

3. You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

James 4