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James 4:3-6 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

3. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

4. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5. Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?

6. But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

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