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James 4:3-8 New English Translation (NET)

3. you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

4. Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.

5. Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

6. But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

7. So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.

8. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

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