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James 4

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Friendship With the World
1#Ro 7:23; 1Pe 2:11Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your body? 2You lust and do not have, so you kill. You desire to have and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have, because you do not ask. 3#1Jn 5:14; 3:22You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
4#Jn 15:19; Ro 8:7You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us”#The source of this quotation is uncertain.? 6#Pr 3:34; 1Pe 5:5But He gives more grace. For this reason it says:
“God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”#Pr 3:34.
7#Eph 4:27; 1Pe 5:8–9Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8#2Ch 15:2; Jas 1:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9#Lk 6:25; Pr 14:13Grieve and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to ­dejection. 10#Mt 23:12Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
Judging a Brother
11#1Pe 2:1; Jas 5:9Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12#Mt 10:28; Ro 14:4; Isa 33:22There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
Warning Against Boasting
13#Pr 27:1; Jas 5:1Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit,” 14#Ps 102:3; 39:5whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 15#Ac 18:21Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16#1Co 5:6But now you are rejoicing in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil. 17#Jn 9:41; Lk 12:47–48Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, it is sin.

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