Submit
Yourselves To God
What
causes Fights and Quarrels among you?
Don't
they come from your desires
That
Battle within you?
2
You want something but don't get it.
You
Kill and Covet, but you cannot have what you want.
You
Quarrel and Fight.
YOU
DO NOT HAVE BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ASK GOD.
3
WHEN YOU ASK,
YOU
DO NOT RECEIVE,
BECAUSE
YOU ASK WITH WRONG MOTIVES,
THAT
YOU MAY SPEND WHAT YOU GET ON YOUR PLEASURES.
4
YOU ADULTEROUS PEOPLE,
DON'T
YOU KNOW THAT FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD
IS
HATRED TOWARD GOD?
ANYONE
WHO CHOOSES TO BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD
BECOMES THE ENEMY OF GOD.
5
Or do you think Scripture says without reason
That
the Spirit He cause to live in us tends toward Envy,
6
BUT HE GIVE MORE GRACE?
That
is why Scripture says:
'God
Opposes the Proud
But
gives Grace to the Humble.'
7
SUBMIT YOURSELVES, THEN, TO GOD.
RESIST
THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
8
COME NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL COME NEAR TO YOU.
WASH
YOU HANDS, YOU SINNERS,
AND
PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YOU DOUBLE-MINDED.
9
GRIEVE, MOURN AND WAIL.
CHANGE
YOUR LAUGHTER INTO MOURNING
AND
YOUR JOY TO GLOOM.
10
HUMBLE YOURSELVES BEFORE THE LORD,
AND
HE WILL LIFT YOU UP.
11
Brothers, do not Slander one anther.
Anyone
who speaks against his brother of judges him
Speaks
against the Law and Judges it.
When
you Judge the Law, you are not keeping it,
But
sitting in Judgment of it.
12
THERE IS ONLY ONE LAWGIVER AND JUDGE,
THE
ONE WHO IS ABLE TO SAVE AND DESTROY.
But
you—who are you to Judge your neighbor?
Boasting
About Tomorrow
13
Now listen, you who say,
'Today
or tomorrow we will go to this or that City,
Spend
a year there, carry on business and make money.'
14
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
WHAT
IS YOUR LIFE?
YOU
ARE A MIST THAT APPEARS FOR A LITTLE WHILE
AND
THEM VANISHES.
15
Instead, you ought to say,
'If
it is the Lord's Will,
We
will live and do this or that.'
16
As it is, you Boast and Brag.
ALL
SUCH BOASTING IS EVIL.
17
ANYONE, THEN, WHO KNOWS THE GOOD HE OUGHT TO DO
AND
DOESN'T DO IT, SINS.
(James
4)
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