James 4
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James 4:1
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What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
James 4:2
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You lust and do not have; {so} you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; {so} you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
James 4:3
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You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend {it} on your pleasures.
James 4:4
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You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:5
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Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "(Or {The spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy}) He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?
James 4:6
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But He gives a greater grace. Therefore {it} says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."
James 4:7
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Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
James 4:8
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Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:9
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Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
James 4:10
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Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
James 4:11
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Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge {of it.}
James 4:12
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There is {only} one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
James 4:13
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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."
James 4:14
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Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are {just} a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
James 4:15
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Instead, {you ought} to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."
James 4:16
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But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
James 4:17
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Therefore, to one who knows {the} right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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