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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?
(4:1)
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
(4:2)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts
(4:3)
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
(4:4)
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
(4:5)
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble
(4:6)
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you
(4:7)
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded
(4:8)
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness
(4:9)
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
(4:10)
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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
(4:11)
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
(4:12)
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:
(4:13)
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
(4:14)
For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that
(4:15)
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil
(4:16)
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin
(4:17)
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