NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

James 4:5

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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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James 4:2–8

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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.

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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.”

7

Be subject therefore to God. 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. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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