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Text -- James 4:1-13 (NET)

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Passions and Pride
4:1 Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? 4:2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 4:3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions. 4:4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy. 4:5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”? 4:6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.” 4:7 So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you. 4:8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded. 4:9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair. 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. 4:11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 4:12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge– the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor? 4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
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NET Notes: Jam 4:1 Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”

NET Notes: Jam 4:4 Grk “is hostility toward God.”

NET Notes: Jam 4:5 No OT verse is worded exactly this way. This is either a statement about the general teaching of scripture or a quotation from an ancient translation ...

NET Notes: Jam 4:6 A quotation from Prov 3:34.

NET Notes: Jam 4:8 Or “two-minded” (the same description used in 1:8).

NET Notes: Jam 4:9 Grk “let your laughter be turned.”

NET Notes: Jam 4:11 Grk “a judge.”

NET Notes: Jam 4:12 Grk “who judges your neighbor.”

NET Notes: Jam 4:13 Or “city.”

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