These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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James 4
Brit Hadashah 17 verses
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What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?
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- 2 You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray;
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or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
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- 4 You unfaithful women, do you not that friendship with the world means enmity to ? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to .
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Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “The which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns jealously over us”?
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But He gives more abundant , as is implied in His saying, “ sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly He gives .”
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Matthew 23:12 Proverbs 3:34 Psalm 138:6 1 Peter 5:5 Proverbs 18:12 Job 22:29 Isaiah 2:11-12 Proverbs 29:23 Daniel 4:37 Luke 14:11 2 Chronicles 34:27 1 Samuel 2:3 Proverbs 15:33 Isaiah 57:15 Isaiah 2:17 2 Chronicles 33:23 Proverbs 22:4 Luke 18:14 2 Chronicles 32:26 Daniel 5:20-23 Isaiah 16:6-7 2 Chronicles 33:12 Luke 1:52 Isaiah 10:8-14 Proverbs 6:16-17 Exodus 10:3-4 -
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Submit therefore to : resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
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1 Peter 5:8-9 Ephesians 4:27 Ephesians 6:11-12 1 Peter 5:6 Hebrews 12:9 2 Chronicles 30:8 Luke 4:2-13 Matthew 4:3-11 Romans 10:3 Psalm 68:30 2 Samuel 15:26 Psalm 32:3-5 Job 40:3-5 Daniel 4:32 Matthew 11:29 1 Samuel 3:18 Ephesians 5:21 Daniel 4:34-37 Job 1:21 Daniel 4:25 Jeremiah 13:18 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 Revelation 12:9-11 Psalm 66:3 Job 42:1-6 Acts 16:29-31 Acts 26:19 2 Kings 1:13-15 Romans 14:11 Acts 9:6 1 Peter 2:13 -
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Draw near to , and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards .
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2 Chronicles 15:2 Zechariah 1:3 Malachi 3:7 Psalm 145:18 Isaiah 55:6-7 Hebrews 10:22 Isaiah 1:15-16 Hosea 6:1-2 1 John 3:3 Matthew 23:25-26 1 Chronicles 28:9 Psalm 51:6-7 Psalm 73:28 Acts 15:9 1 Peter 3:21 Luke 11:39-40 2 Corinthians 7:1 Hebrews 7:19 1 Peter 1:22 James 1:8 Matthew 15:2 Genesis 18:23 Psalm 24:4 Jeremiah 4:14 1 Timothy 2:8 Jeremiah 4:11 Ezekiel 18:31 Matthew 12:33 Ezekiel 36:25-27 Job 17:9 Isaiah 29:13 Matthew 27:24 Job 16:17 Isaiah 13:15 Psalm 18:20 Psalm 73:13 Job 9:30 Psalm 51:10 Psalm 26:6 -
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Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
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Luke 6:25 Matthew 5:4 Proverbs 14:13 Ezekiel 16:63 James 5:1-2 Jeremiah 31:18-20 Ecclesiastes 7:2-6 Psalm 126:5-6 Luke 16:25 Job 30:31 Isaiah 22:12-13 Lamentations 5:15 Psalm 119:67 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 Jeremiah 31:9 Revelation 18:7-8 Zechariah 12:10-14 Psalm 119:71 Ezekiel 7:16 Ecclesiastes 2:2 Luke 6:21 Psalm 119:136 Jeremiah 31:13 - 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
- 11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.
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The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to or to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man?
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- 13 Come, you who say, “To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business,”
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when, all the while, you do not even what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.
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- 15 Instead of that you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we shall live and do this or that.”
- 16 But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.
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If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.
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