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James 4:3-5
Modern English Version
James 4:3-5
Modern English Version
3 You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us”[a]?
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- James 4:5 The source of this quotation is uncertain.
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