Bible · James · 4 of 5

17 verses · Berean Standard Bible

Berean Standard Bible Westminster Leningrad Codex · עברית
Chapter 4
1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
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2You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
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3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
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4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
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5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
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6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
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11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
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12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
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14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
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16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
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17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
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Depth Note Claude Sonnet 4.6
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