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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.
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You ask, and don`t receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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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"?
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But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
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Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.