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James 4:8 (NLT)

Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.

James 4:14 (NLT)

How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.

James 4:3 (NLT)

And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

James 4:5 (NLT)

Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him.

James 4:7 (NLT)

So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:16 (NLT)

Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.

James 4:10 (NLT)

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.

James 4:15 (NLT)

What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”

James 4:12 (NLT)

God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?

You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.

James 4:1 (NLT)

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?

James 4:4 (NLT)

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

James 4:6 (NLT)

And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

James 4:11 (NLT)

Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. If you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you.

James 4:17 (NLT)

Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

James 4:9 (NLT)

Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.

James 4:13 (NLT)

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.”

James 5:8 (NLT)

You, too, must be patient. Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.

James 1:8 (NLT)

Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.

James 2:8 (NLT)

Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

James 3:8 (NLT)

but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison.

James 2:4 (NLT)

doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?

James 5:4 (NLT)

For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

James 3:4 (NLT)

And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong.

James 1:4 (NLT)

So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.