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You are jealous and covet what others have, and your desires go unfulfilled; so you become murderers. (To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.) You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek, so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Or you do ask and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is, when you get what you desire, to spend it in sensual pleasures.

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"If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless."

"As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?"

"As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend."