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Quarrels, Covetousness, and Humility

James 4:1-12

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Chapter 4
1 Where do wars and fights among you come from? Not from here—from your pleasures that are warring in your members? 2 You desire and do not have. You murder and envy, but cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your pleasures. 4 Adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The spirit he caused to dwell in us yearns jealously”? 6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil against a brother or judges a 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. 12 There is one lawgiver and judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?