James 4
Friendship with the
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From whence come wars and
fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your
lusts that war in your members?
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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.
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask
amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye
not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
God.
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Do ye think that the Scripture saith in
vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he
saith,
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| God resisteth the proud, |
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3.34 |
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Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh
to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let
your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to
heaviness.
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the
Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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Judging a
Brother |
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Speak not evil one of another,
brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth
his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if
thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a
judge.
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There is one lawgiver, who is able to
save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
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Boast Not of
Tomorrow |
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Go to now, ye that say, Today or
tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and
buy and sell, and get gain:
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whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. Prov. 27.1 For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that
appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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For that ye ought to say, If the
Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
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But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all
such rejoicing is evil.
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Therefore to him that knoweth to do good,
and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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