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Feb 2023
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A Prayer When You Are Tempted with Jealo...

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The motive behind Adam and Eve’s disobedience was comparison, which led to covetousness, which led to pride, which led to selfishness, which led to ungratefulness for what God had already provided (all rooted in fear). - Emily Rose Massey

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