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| 1 | What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? | Friendship with the World Jas.4.1-10 |
| 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. | |
| 3 | You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. | |
| 4 | Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. | |
| 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"? | |
| 6 | But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." | - God opposes the proud Jas.4.6 | Pr.3.34 |
| 7 | Submit yourselves therefore to God. 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 men of double mind. | |
| 9 | Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection. | |
| 10 | Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. | |
| 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. | Judging a Brother Jas.4.11-12 |
| 12 | There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbour? | |
| 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 get gain"; | Warning against Boasting Jas.4.13-17 |
| 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. | |
| 15 | Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that." | |
| 16 | As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. | |
| 17 | Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. | |
| 1 | Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. | Warning to the Rich Jas.5.1-6 |
| 2 | Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. | |
| 3 | Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. | |
| 4 | Behold, the wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. | |
| 5 | You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. | |
| 6 | You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you. | |
