“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God — the causal chain is stark: unmet desire leads to violence, envy, conflict, and ultimately to prayerlessness. The progression from murder to quarreling to prayerlessness shows that the absence of communion with God enables vice. The diagnosis is direct: the root problem is not lack of resources but lack of petition before God.
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