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36 lines
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Proud or Humble
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# Chapter 4
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1. What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don't they come from your passions that wage war within you?
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2. You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
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3. You ask and don't receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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4. You adulterous people! Don't you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
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5. Or do you think it's without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?
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6. But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says:
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<b class="quote">
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God resists the proud**
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<b class="quote">but gives grace to the humble.**
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7. Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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8. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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9. Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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10. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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11. Don't criticize one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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12. There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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Our Will and God's Will
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13. Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."
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14. Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring--what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
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15. Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."
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16. But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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17. So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.
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