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James 4:7 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. "
James 4:7
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5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists 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. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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James 4:1
"Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?"
James 4:2
"You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask."
James 4:3
"You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures."
James 4:4
"You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
James 4:5
"Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?"
James 4:6
"But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”"
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