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Jacob (James) 4

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Resist Pride and Evil
1Where do quarrels and conflicts among you come from? Don’t they come from this, namely your passions that battle within your body parts?
2You crave and have not. You murder and you envy, yet you cannot get it. You fight and you wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
3You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives so you may spend it on your passions.
4You adulteresses! Don’t you 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.
5Or do you think that in vain the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which He made to dwell in us”?
6But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7Therefore submit to God. But 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, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!
9Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of Adonai, and He shall lift you up.
11Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the Torah and judges the Torah. But if you judge the Torah, you are not a doer of the Torah, but a judge.
12There is only one lawgiver and judge—the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judges your neighbor?
If the Lord Wills, We Will
13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
16But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17Therefore whoever knows the right thing to do and does not do it—for him it is sin.

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