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Submit Yourselves to God
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”
“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”
Humility Cures Worldliness
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Submit yourselves, then, 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, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Do Not Judge a Brother
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you — who are you to judge your neighbor?
Boasting About Tomorrow
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Why, 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.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.