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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.(A) Adulterers![b] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(B)

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  1. 4.2 Or you murder and you covet
  2. 4.4 Gk Adulterous women; other ancient authorities read Adulterous men and women

你们放纵贪欲,如果得不到,就杀人;你们嫉妒,如果一无所得,就打斗争执。你们得不到,因为你们不求; 你们求也得不到,因为你们的动机不良,要把所得的耗费在你们的私欲上。 淫乱的人哪,你们不知道与世俗为友,就是与 神为敌吗?所以与世俗为友的,就成了 神的仇敌。

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