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1 Where do wars and fights among you come from?
Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust,
and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war.
You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 3 You ask, and don’t receive,
because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your
pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that
friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to
be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think
that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but
gives grace to the humble.” Proverbs 3:34 7 Be subject
therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw
near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and
purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your
laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble
yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He
who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and
judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a
judge. 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.
But who are you to judge another?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow
let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 14 Whereas
you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For
you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 15 For
you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.” 16 But
now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. 17 To him
therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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