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The Book of James, Chapter 4, Verse 2

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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.
King James Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
American Standard Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
New English Translation
Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
World English Bible
You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
3
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
4
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
5
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
6
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
8
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
10
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
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Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: