James 4:3-5
Christian Standard Bible
3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.(A)
4 You adulterous people![a] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.(B) 5 Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?[b](C)
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James 4:3-5
King James Version
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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