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James 4:3-5
New American Standard Bible 1995

3 You ask and (A)do not receive, because you ask [a]with wrong motives, so that you may spend it [b]on your pleasures. 4 You (B)adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with (C)the world is (D)hostility toward God? (E)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture (F)speaks to no purpose: “[c]He [d]jealously desires (G)the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

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  1. James 4:3 Lit wickedly
  2. James 4:3 Lit in
  3. James 4:5 Or The spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy
  4. James 4:5 Lit desires to jealousy
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