James 4:1-2

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Friendship with the World

4 What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? ²You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet^[a] and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

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James 4:2 Or you kill and you covet

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