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The Book of James, Chapter 4, Verse 3

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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
New English Translation
Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
World English Bible
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.