3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, 'The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously'?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, 'God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.'
7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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