2 You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask.

3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.

James 4:2-3, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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