James 4

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(Jam 4:1) From whence {come} wars and fightings among you? {come they} not hence, {even} of your lusts that war in your members?
(Jam 4:2) 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.
(Jam 4:3) Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume {it} upon your lusts.
(Jam 4:4) 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.
(Jam 4:5) Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
(Jam 4:6) But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
(Jam 4:7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(Jam 4:8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse {your} hands, {ye} sinners; and purify {your} hearts, {ye} double minded.
(Jam 4:9) Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and {your} joy to heaviness.
(Jam 4:10) Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
(Jam 4:11) 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.
(Jam 4:12) There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
(Jam 4:13) Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
(Jam 4:14) Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
(Jam 4:15) For that ye {ought} to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
(Jam 4:16) But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
(Jam 4:17) Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth {it} not, to him it is sin.
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