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1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that 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 don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. Yet 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 receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for 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.
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