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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews, Chapter 4
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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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.
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume
it upon your lusts.
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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.
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Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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But he giveth more grace.
Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble.
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your
hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you
up.
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Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of
his brother, and judgeth 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.
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There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who
art thou that judgest another?
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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:
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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.
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For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do
this, or that.
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But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to
him it is sin.
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