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1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
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What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
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You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?
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Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ?
6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."
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But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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