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James 4:2 KJV
James · chapter 4 · verse 2 · King James Version
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.James 4:2 · King James Version
James 4:2 in context
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4Ye 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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- cannotouno, not in direct questions expecting an affirmative answerG3756 →
- cannotdynamaito be able, have power whether by virtue of one s own ability and resources, or of a…G1410 →
- obtainepitygchanōto light or hit upon any person or thing, to attain to, obtainG2013 →
- fightmachomaito fight, of armed combatants, or those who engage in a hand to hand struggle, of those…G3164 →
- lustepithymeōto turn upon a thing, to have a desire for, long for, to desire, to lust after, covet, of…G1937 →
- killphoneuōto kill, slay, murder, to commit murderG5407 →
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