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James 4:3-5
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3 You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason—for your own pleasure.

4 You adulterers! Don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God[a] caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?[b]

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  1. James 4:5 Lit. he
  2. James 4:5 Cf. Exod 20:5; Num 11:29
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