1 What is the source of conflict among you? What is the source of your disputes? Don't they come from your cravings that are at war in your own lives?
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What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
2 You long for something you don't have, so you commit murder. You are jealous for something you can't get, so you struggle and fight. You don't have because you don't 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 don't have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.
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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.