James 4:1-6 (New Revised Standard)
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1
Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?
2
You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet a something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.
4
Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5
Or do you suppose that it is for nothing that the scripture says, "God b yearns jealously for the spirit that he has made to dwell in us"?
6
But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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