1: From whence come wars and fightings among you? come
they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? |
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2: 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. |
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts. |
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4: 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. |
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5: Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? |
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6: But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. |
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7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you. |
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8: Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your
hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. |
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9: Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned
to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
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10: Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift
you up. |
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11: 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. |
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12: There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy:
who art thou that judgest another? |
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13: 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:
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14: 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. |
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15: For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live,
and do this, or that. |
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16: But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is
evil. |
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17: Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not,
to him it is sin. |