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James 4:3-5
International Children’s Bible
James 4:3-5
International Children’s Bible
3 Or when you ask, you do not receive because the reason you ask is wrong. You want things only so that you can use them for your own pleasures.
4 So, you people are not loyal to God! You should know that loving the world is the same as hating God. So if a person wants to be a friend of the world, he makes himself God’s enemy. 5 Do you think the Scripture means nothing? It says, “The Spirit that God made to live in us wants us for himself alone.”[a]
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- 4:5 “The Spirit . . . alone.” These words may be from Exodus 20:5.
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