James Chapter 4 (ESV)
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What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
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You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
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You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
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But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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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.
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Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” —
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yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
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As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
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