James:4:1-12

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* From where [come ] wars and disputes among you ? Is it not from here , from your lusts , which war in your members ? * You lust and you do not have . You murder and are jealous and you cannot obtain . You fight and make war . You do not have because you do not ask . * You ask and do not receive , because you ask with wrong motives , that you may spend [it ] in [gratifying ] your lusts . * Adulterers and adulteresses ! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God ? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God . * Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain , "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously "? * But He gives more grace . Therefore He says : "God resists the proud , but gives grace to the humble ." * Therefore submit to God . 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 and mourn and weep ! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection . * Be humbled before the Lord , and He will exalt you . * Do not speak evil of one another , brothers . He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law . And if you judge the law , you are not a doer of the law but a judge . * There is one Lawgiver , who is able to save and to destroy . But who are you who judges the other ?

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