James 4:3World English Bible British Edition
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
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Genesis 3:10
The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
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The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life.