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You ask, and yet do not receive, because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend it on what gives you pleasure.

Adulterers,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or, do you think that Scripture has no reason for saying that the Spirit, who lives in us,[b] yearns jealously?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 Some witnesses to the text read Adulterous men and women or Adulterers and adulteresses.
  2. James 4:5 Some witnesses to the text read that he caused to live in us.
  3. James 4:5 Or strongly opposes envy