Jacob 4
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1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? 6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”#Proverbs 3:34 7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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. 12Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.” 16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. 17To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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James 4
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1Where do the fights and quarrels you're having come from? Aren't they due to the sensual passions that are in conflict within you? 2You burn with desire, but don't get what you want. You kill for what you lust after, but don't get what you're looking for. You argue and you fight, but you don't get anything, because you don't pray for it. 3You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures. 4You adulterous people! Don't you realize that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Those who want to be friends of the world make themselves enemies of God.
5Do you think Scripture doesn't mean what it says: that the spirit that he put in us is very jealous?#4:5. Or “God has placed a spirit in us that is filled with strong desires.” 6But God gives us even more grace, as Scripture says: “God is against those who are arrogant, but gives grace to those who are humble.”#4:6. Quoting Proverbs 3:34. 7So place yourself under God's direction. Confront the devil, and he will run away from you. 8Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties. 9Show some remorse, cry and weep! Turn your laughter into mourning, and your joy to sadness. 10Be humble before the Lord and he will lift you up.
11Friends, don't speak badly of one another. Anyone who criticizes a fellow-believer and condemns#4:11. Or “judges.” them, criticizes and condemns the law. If you condemn the law you're not someone who keeps the law, because you're sitting in judgment of it. 12There's only one lawgiver and judge—the one who can either save or destroy you—so who are you to judge your neighbor?
13Come on now!—you people who say, “Either today or tomorrow we'll go to such-and-such a city, spend a year in business there, and make a profit.” 14You have no idea what will happen tomorrow! What's your life like? It's just a mist that appears for a little while, and then is gone. 15What you should say is, “If it's the Lord's will, we'll live like this and plan to do that.” 16But right now you're caught up in your vain ideas. All this boasting is evil. 17For it is a sin if you know to do what's right but don't do it.
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