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Chapter 4 | |
1 | From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?  | 
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.  | 
3 | Ye 1ask, 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.  | 
5 | Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?  | 
6 | But he giveth 
more grace. Wherefore he saith, 
1God 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.  |  
8 | Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.  | 
9 | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.  | 
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.  |  
11 | Speak not evil one of 
another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and 1judgeth 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?  | 
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:  | 
14 | Whereas ye 1know 
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.  | 
16 | But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.  | 
17 | Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.  | 
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