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because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
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Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
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Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.
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have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
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If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.
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But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
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But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
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Submit Yourselves to God
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
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When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
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Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
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Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
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Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
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Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
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Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
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Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
