James 4:7-15
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7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
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13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
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14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.