James 4:3-5
New King James Version
3 (A)You ask and do not receive, (B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 [a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (C)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (D)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, (E)“The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
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- James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and
James 4:3-5
English Standard Version
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask (A)wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 (B)You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (C)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit (D)that he has made to dwell in us”?
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- James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!
James 4:3-5
New American Standard Bible
3 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. 4 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. 5 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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