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James 2:26 (NIV)
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
James 1:17 (NIV)
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 3:17 (NIV)
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
James 4:17 (NIV)
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
James 5:17 (NIV)
Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
James 1:2 (NIV)
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
James 3:2 (NIV)
We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.
James 4:2 (NIV)
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
James 5:2 (NIV)
Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
2 Kings 17:1 (NIV)
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.
2 Kings 17:2 (NIV)
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord , but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.
2 Kings 17:3 (NIV)
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up to attack Hoshea, who had been Shalmaneser’s vassal and had paid him tribute.
2 Kings 17:4 (NIV)
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.
2 Kings 17:5 (NIV)
The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched against Samaria and laid siege to it for three years.
2 Kings 17:6 (NIV)
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:7 (NIV)
All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods
2 Kings 17:8 (NIV)
and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.
2 Kings 17:9 (NIV)
The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns.
2 Kings 17:10 (NIV)
They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
2 Kings 17:11 (NIV)
At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord ’s anger.
2 Kings 17:12 (NIV)
They worshiped idols, though the Lord had said, “You shall not do this.”
2 Kings 17:13 (NIV)
The Lord warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers: “Turn from your evil ways. Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.”
2 Kings 17:14 (NIV)
But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God.
2 Kings 17:15 (NIV)
They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”
2 Kings 17:16 (NIV)
They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.