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Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
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You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
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You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with 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 dwells in us yearns jealously"?
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But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."
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Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.