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You adulterers! Don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God. Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God[a] caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?[b] But he gives all the more grace. And so he says,

“God opposes the arrogant
    but gives grace to the humble.”[c]

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