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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
James 4:2 in context
James 4:1–5
1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
2
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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.
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”?
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