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James 4:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? "

James 4:5

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

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

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

7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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James 4:1

"Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?"

James 4:2

"You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask."

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"You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures."

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"You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

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