The Book of James - verse by verse (2)

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James 4:4
You unfaithful people! Don’t you know that love for this evil world is hatred toward God? Whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God

 

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John 4:5
Do you think this passage means nothing? It says, “The Spirit that lives in us wants us to be his own.”

 

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James 4:6
But God shows us even more kindness.[a] Scripture says,

“God opposes arrogant people,
but he is kind to humble people.”

 

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James 4:7
So place yourselves under God’s authority. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you.

 

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James 4:8
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners, and clear your minds, you doubters

 

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James 4:9
Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom.

 

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James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the Lord’s presence. Then he will give you a high position.

 

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James 4:11
Brothers and sisters, stop slandering each other. Those who slander and judge other believers slander and judge God’s teachings. If you judge God’s teachings, you are no longer following them. Instead, you are judging them

 

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James 4:12
There is only one teacher and judge. He is able to save or destroy you. So who are you to judge your neighbor?

 

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James 4:13
Pay attention to this! You’re saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go into some city, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.

 

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James 4:14
You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears

 

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James 4:15
Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and carry out our plans.”

 

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James 4:16
However, you brag because you’re arrogant. All such bragging is evil.

 

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John 4:17
Whoever knows what is right but doesn’t do it is sinning.

 

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James 5:1 KJV

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

 

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James 5:2 KJV

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

 

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James 5:3

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

 

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James 5:4 KJV

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

 

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James 5:5 KJV

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

 

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James 5:6 KJV

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.