"Where
do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your
pleasures that war in your members? You lust, and don't have. You kill,
covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because
you don't ask. You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong
motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. You adulterers and
adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity
with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes
himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in
vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? But he gives more
grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the
humble." Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will
flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse
your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and
your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he
will exalt you.
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. Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." 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. For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin." (James 4 WEB)
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. Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." 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. For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin." (James 4 WEB)
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