James 4:3-5

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³You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.^(A)

⁴You adulterous people!^[a] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.^(B) ⁵Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?^[b]^(C)

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4:4 Lit Adulteresses
4:5 Or Scripture says: He jealously yearns for the spirit he made to live in us?, or Scripture says: The Spirit he made to dwell in us longs jealously?

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