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Friendship with the World

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet[a] something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:2 Or you murder and you covet

与世俗为友就是与神为敌

你们中间的争战、斗殴是从哪里来的呢?不是从你们百体中战斗之私欲来的吗? 你们贪恋,还是得不着;你们杀害嫉妒,又斗殴争战,也不能得。你们得不着,是因为你们不求。 你们求也得不着,是因为你们妄求,要浪费在你们的宴乐中。

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