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| 4:1 |
What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
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| 4:2 |
You desire and do not have;so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain;so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
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| 4:3 |
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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| 4:4 |
Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to bea friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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| 4:5 |
Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, 'He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us'?
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| 4:6 |
But he gives more grace;therefore it says, 'God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.'
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| 4:7 |
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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| 4:8 |
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.
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| 4:9 |
Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
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| 4:10 |
Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
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| 4:11 |
Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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| 4:12 |
There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbor?
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| 4:13 |
Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and getgain';
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| 4:14 |
whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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| 4:15 |
Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that.'
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| 4:16 |
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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| 4:17 |
Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
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