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You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us”[a]? But He gives more grace. For this reason it says:

“God resists the proud,
    but gives grace to the humble.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:5 The source of this quotation is uncertain.
  2. James 4:6 Pr 3:34.