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Submit Yourselves to God
4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you?
come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your
members?
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.
4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye
may consume it upon your lusts.
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.
4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The
spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God
resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you.
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.
4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be
turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he
shall lift you up.
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.
4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to
destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Boasting About Tomorrow
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:
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.
4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall
live, and do this, or that.
4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such
rejoicing is evil.
4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it
not, to him it is sin. |
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