Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
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Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
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Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
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Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
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Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
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Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:
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whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
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But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
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To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
1 [To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
