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You lust and do not have, so you (A)murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and (B)do not receive, because you ask [a]with wrong motives, so that you may spend it [b]on your pleasures. You (C)adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with (D)the world is (E)hostility toward God? (F)Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.

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  1. James 4:3 Lit wickedly
  2. James 4:3 Lit in