003:017 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful,
gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
003:018 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those
who make peace.
004:001 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?
Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
004:002 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain.
You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
004:003 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives,
so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
004:004 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship
with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants
to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
004:005 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit
who lives in us yearns jealously"?
004:006 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists
the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34}
004:007 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
004:008 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands,
you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
004:009 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning,
and your joy to gloom.
004:010 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
004:011 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks
against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against
the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law,
you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
004:012 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.
But who are you to judge another?
004:013 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city,
and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
004:014 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow.
For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears
for a little time, and then vanishes away.
004:015 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live,
and do this or that."
004:016 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
004:017 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it,
to him it is sin.
005:001 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are
coming on you.
005:002 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
005:003 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be
for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire.
You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
005:004 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields,
which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries
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