Bible in Basic English
"What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?"
— James 4:1, Bible in Basic English
“Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? ”
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.