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James 4:1-2
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Warning Against Worldliness

4:1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions [1] are at war within you? [2] 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Footnotes

[1] 4:1 Greek pleasures; also verse 3
[2] 4:1 Greek in your members

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