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James 4:2

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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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  1. James 4:1

    From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

  2. James 4:3

    Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

  3. James 4:4

    Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.