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