What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? James 4:11
When we are in conflict with others, we must examine our own lives and admit there’s a war going on within us. It’s our passions and the pursuit of pleasure that put us at odds with one another.
The word “passions” is the same word used by Jesus in Luke 8:14 in the parable of the soils when describing the seed that fell among the thorns: “…they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.”
In James 4:7-12, he gives us a prescription to follow to combat this “worldliness”.