James 4:1
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?”
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
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