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James 4

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What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you ?
Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions , that are as soldiers in your members ?
You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet , but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight . You do not have, because you do not ask.
ye desire, and ye have not ; ye murder, and are zealous , and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not , because of your not asking;
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives , that you may squander it on your pleasures.
ye ask, and ye receive not , because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it' .
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever , then, may counsel to be a friend of the world , an enemy of God he is set .
Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, ` To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us ,'
But He gives us more grace . This is why it says: God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, ` God against proud ones doth set Himself up , and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
Submit yourselves , then, to God . Resist the devil, and he will flee from you .
be subject , then, to God ; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you ;
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you . Cleanse your hands, you sinners , and purify your hearts, you double - minded.
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you ; cleanse hands, ye sinners ! and purify hearts, ye two - souled!
Grieve , mourn, and weep . Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
be exceeding afflicted , and mourn, and weep , let your laughter to mourning be turned , and the joy to heaviness;
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
Brothers, do not slander one another . Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law , but a judge of it.
Speak not one against another , brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother , doth speak against law , and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge , thou art not a doer of law but a judge ;
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge , the One who is able to save and destroy . But who are you to judge your neighbor ?
one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy ; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other ?
Come now, you who say , “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business , and make a profit.”
Go, now, ye who are saying , `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year , and traffic , and make gain;'
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little , and then is vanishing;
Instead , you ought to say , If the Lord is willing , we will live and do this or that .”
instead of your saying , ` If the Lord may will , we shall live , and do this or that ;'
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil .
and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil ;
Anyone , then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it , is guilty of sin.
to him , then, knowing to do good , and not doing , sin it is to him .

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