James 4:1-5
1What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings a that are at war within you? ▼▼Lit war in your members
2You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. 3You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires. c 4 Adulteresses! ▼▼Other mss read Adulterers and adulteresses
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▼▼Or Unfaithful people!
Don’t you know that friendship with the ▼▼world: The organized Satanic system that is opposed to God and hostile to Jesus and His followers. The non-Christian culture including governments, educational systems, and businesses
world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy. g 5 Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously? ▼▼Or He who caused the Spirit to live in us yearns jealously, or the spirit He caused to live in us yearns jealously, or He jealously yearns for the Spirit He made to live in us
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