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James 4
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James 4 . 1
1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?CJames 4TOSKJames 4:1
James 4 . 2
2 You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.TOSKJames 4:2
James 4 . 3
3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.TOSKJames 4:3
James 4 . 4
4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.TOSKJames 4:4TTNazirite Vow (Separation unto God) Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry)
James 4 . 5
5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?TOSKJames 4:5
James 4 . 6
6 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."IPIsaiah 61:1 Proverbs 3:34TOSKJames 4:6
James 4 . 7
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.TOSKJames 4:7
James 4 . 8
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.TOSKJames 4:8TTCeremonial Uncleanness (Spiritual Defilement)
James 4 . 9
9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.TOSKJames 4:9
James 4 . 10
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.TOSKJames 4:10
James 4 . 11
11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.TOSKJames 4:11
James 4 . 12
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?TOSKJames 4:12
James 4 . 13
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”TOSKJames 4:13
James 4 . 14
14 You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.TOSKJames 4:14
James 4 . 15
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”TOSKJames 4:15
James 4 . 16
16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.TOSKJames 4:16
James 4 . 17
17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.TOSKJames 4:17