³ Or when you ask, you do not receive because ·the reason you ask is wrong [or you ask with the wrong motives; ^Lyou ask badly/wrongly]. You want things so you ·can use [^Lspend] them for your own pleasures.

⁴ ·So, you are not loyal to God [^LYou adulterers!; ^Coften adultery is used in a spiritual sense for betraying God; Jer. 3:20]! ·You should know [^LDon’t you know…?] that ·loving [^Lfriendship with] the world is ·the same as hating [^Lhostility/enmity toward] God. Anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes God’s enemy. ⁵ Do you think the Scripture ·means nothing that says [or says for no reason], ·“The Spirit that God made to live in us wants us for himself alone”? [or “God yearns jealously for the spirit he has made to live in us”?; or “The spirit God placed within us tends to jealously desire things”?; ^Cfor God’s jealousy for his people see Ex. 20:5; 34:14; Zech. 8:2].