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James 4 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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[fn]What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? [fn]Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:2 - You lust and do not have, so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:3 - You ask and do not receive, because you ask [fn]with wrong motives, so that you may spend it [fn]on your pleasures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:5 - Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “[fn]He [fn]jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:6 - But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:7 - Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:8 - Draw 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:9 - Be miserable and mourn and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:10 - Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

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Do not slander one another, brothers. He who slanders a brother or judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:12 - There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judge your neighbor?

Life Is a Vapor

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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:14 - [fn]Yet you do not know [fn]what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:15 - [fn]Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:16 - But as it is, you boast in your [fn]arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:17 - Therefore, to one who knows to do the [fn]right thing and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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Lit From where wars and from where fightings
Lit Are they not from here, from your
Lit wickedly
Lit in
Or The spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy
Lit desires to jealousy
Lit Who do not
Or what will happen tomorrow. What kind of life is yours?
Lit Instead of your saying
Or pretensions
Or good
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