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          DASV: James 4    

1 Where do fights and quarrels among you come from? Do they
not come from your passions that war within you?
2 You desire and do not have. You murder and are jealous and
cannot have what you want, so you argue and fight. You do
not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive because you ask for the wrong
reasons, that you may squander it on your own pleasures.
4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world
is hostility against God? Therefore, whoever befriends the
world makes himself God’s enemy.
5 Do you think the Scripture speaks for nothing, when it says
“God yearns jealously for the spirit he put inside of us”?
6 But he gives more grace. Because the Scripture says “God
opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
7 So submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your
hands you sinners, and purify your hearts you with divided
loyalties.
9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned
into mourning and your joy into sorrow.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift
you up.
11 Do not speak against each other, brothers. He who
speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks
against the law, and judges the law. But if you judge
the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.
12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, one who is able
to save and destroy. But who are you that you judge
your neighbor?

13 Come now, you that say, “Today or tomorrow we will
go into this or that town, and spend a year there,
and trade, and get wealth.”
14 You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is
your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little
while, and then vanishes away.
15 You ought to say, “If the Lord wills it, we will
live and do this or that.”
16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such
bragging is evil.
17 Therefore, whoever knows what is right and does
not do it, is guilty of sin.

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