.
| Chapter 4
|
1 |
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members? |
2 | Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and
desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have
not, because ye ask not. |
3 | Ye 1ask,
and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon
your lusts.
1
Matt 20:21
|
4
| Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship
of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of God. |
5 | Do ye think that the scripture saith in
vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? |
6 | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he
saith,
1God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace
unto the humble.
1
Prov 3:34,
1st Pet 5:5
|
7 |
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you. |
8 |
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. |
9 | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let
your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
10 |
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. |
11 |
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of
his brother, and 1judgeth 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.
Matt 7:1,
Luke 6:37,
Rom 2:1,
Rom 14:3,
1st Cor 4:3,
1st Cor 4:5
|
12 |
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art
thou that judgest another? |
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: |
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. |
15 |
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do
this, or that. |
16 | But
now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. |
17 |
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. |