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Ambition » Leads to strife and contention
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.
Desires » Evil
once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.
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but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.
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Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did.
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You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.
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because everything that is in the world, the things that our lower nature and eyes are longing for, and the proud pretensions of life, do not come from the Father, but from the world;
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Evil » Results of » Desires
once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.
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but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.
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Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did.
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You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.
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because everything that is in the world, the things that our lower nature and eyes are longing for, and the proud pretensions of life, do not come from the Father, but from the world;
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Lust » What comes out of lust
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them. You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
Prayer » Morning » Neglect of
You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.
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War/weapons » Where wars come from
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them. You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Rapacity of
Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.
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The hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf carries off some of the sheep and scatters the flock.
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Because I know that after I have gone violent wolves will break in among you and will not spare the flock.
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But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.
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But if you continue to bite and eat one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.
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You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.
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men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will receive a much heavier sentence."
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But when the tenants saw him, they argued among themselves, 'This is the heir; let us kill him, so that what he inherits may be ours.'
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