Selfish Ambitions

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Verses

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  1. What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
  2. You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
  3. We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. …
  4. And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
  5. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. …
  6. You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
  7. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
  8. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.