James 4:3-5

GOD’S WORD Translation

³ When you pray for things, you don’t get them because you want them for the wrong reason—for your own pleasure.

⁴ You unfaithful people! Don’t you know that love for this ⌞evil⌟ world is hatred toward God? Whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God. ⁵ Do you think this passage means nothing? It says, “The Spirit that lives in us wants us to be his own.”