You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and [a]war. [b]Yet you do not have because you do not ask. (A)You ask and do not receive, (B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. [c]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.

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:2 battle
  2. James 4:2 NU, M omit Yet
  3. James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and

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