bible_study/Bible/James/Jas 4.md

## Draw Near to God 

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What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 

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You lust and do not have, _so_ you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, _so_ you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 

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You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend _it_ on your pleasures. 

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You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God. 

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Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"? 

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But He gives a greater grace. Therefore _it_ says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 

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Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 

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Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 

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Be miserable and mourn and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 

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Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. 

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Do not slander one another, brothers. He who slanders a brother or judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge _of it_. 

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There is _only_ one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judge your neighbor?

## Life Is a Vapor 

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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." 

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Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 

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Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." 

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But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 

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Therefore, to one who knows to do _the_ right thing and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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			`###### 1`
			`What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?`

			`###### 2`
			`You lust and do not have, _so_ you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, _so_ you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.`

			`###### 3`
			`You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend _it_ on your pleasures.`

			`###### 4`
			`You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.`

			`###### 5`
			`Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?`

			`###### 6`
			`But He gives a greater grace. Therefore _it_ says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble."`

			`###### 7`
			`Be subject 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 miserable and mourn and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.`

			`###### 10`
			`Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.`

			`###### 11`
			`Do not slander one another, brothers. He who slanders a brother or judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge _of it_.`

			`###### 12`
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			`## Life Is a Vapor`
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			`###### 13`
			`Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."`

			`###### 14`
			`Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.`

			`###### 15`
			`Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."`

			`###### 16`
			`But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.`

			`###### 17`
			`Therefore, to one who knows to do _the_ right thing and does not do it, to him it is sin.`