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Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don\'t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? |
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You lust, and don\'t have. You kill, covet, and can\'t obtain. You fight and make war. You don\'t have, because you don\'t ask. |
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You ask, and don\'t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. |
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You adulterers and adulteresses, don\'t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. |
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Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? |
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But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." |
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Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. |
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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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Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. |
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. |
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Don\'t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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 a judge. |
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Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? |
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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let\'s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." |
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Whereas you don\'t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. |
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For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." |
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But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. |
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To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn\'t do it, to him it is sin. |
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