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  • Warning against Pride

    Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?
  • Warning Against Worldliness

    What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passionsa are at war within you?b
  • Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.
  • You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
  • Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.
  • You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
  • Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
  • You adulterous people!c Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
  • Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
  • But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.
  • But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
  • Drawing Near to God

    Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
  • Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
  • Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.
  • Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
  • Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
  • Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.
  • Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
  • Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.
  • Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.d The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
  • One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?
  • There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
  • Do Not Boast about Tomorrow

    Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,
  • Boasting About Tomorrow

    Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” —
  • ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
  • yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
  • instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
  • Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
  • But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
  • As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
  • To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
  • So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

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