3. And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.
4. Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? People who want to be the world's friends make themselves God's enemies.
5. Don't think that there is no truth in the scripture that says, “The spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce desires.”
6. But the grace that God gives is even stronger. As the scripture says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7. So then, submit to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.