1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don`t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
2
You lust, and don`t have. You kill, covet, and can`t obtain. You fight and make war. Yet you don`t have, because you don`t ask.
3
You ask, and don`t receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don`t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?