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James 4:3-4 KJV
James · chapter 4 · verses 3–4
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.James 4:3-4 · King James Version
James 4:3-4 in context
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 John 5:14
- 1 John 3:22
- James 1:6-7
- James 4:1
- Proverbs 15:8
- Micah 3:4
- 1 John 2:15-16
- Romans 8:7
- John 15:19
- Matthew 6:24
- Galatians 1:10
- John 17:14
Key words (Strong's)
- adulteressesmoichalisan adulteress, as the intimate alliance of God with the people of Israel was likened to a…G3428 →
- adulterersmoichosan adulterer, metaph. one who is faithless toward God, ungodlyG3432 →
- friendshipphiliafriendshipG5373 →
- whosoeverhoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- whosoeveranhas no exact English equivalent, see definitions under AVG302 →
- receivelambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- consumedapanaōto incur expense, expend, spend, in a bad sense to waste, squander, consumeG1159 →
- enmityechthraenmity, cause of enmityG2189 →
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The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10