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Chapter 4
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1
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come
they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? |
2
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have,
and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not,
because ye ask not. |
3
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that
ye may consume it upon your lusts. |
4
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy
of God. |
5
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Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit
that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? |
6
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. |
7
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you. |
8
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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double
minded. |
9
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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter
be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
10
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he
shall lift you up. |
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Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh
evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh
evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge
the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. |
12
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There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy:
who art thou that judgest another? |
13
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Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will
go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy
and sell, and get gain: |
14
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Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For
what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth
for a little time, and then vanisheth away. |
15
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For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall
live, and do this, or that. |
16
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But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing
is evil. |
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Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin. |
