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

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:3 Lit wrongly
  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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