Suosittuja jakeita Raamatun kirjasta James 4

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Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.”

Therefore, to one who knows to do the right thing and does not do it, to him it is sin.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.