1 Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which 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 Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.
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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 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in 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.