- Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle
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chapter 4
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whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your
concupiscences, which war in your members?
2 You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can
not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.
3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that
you may consume it on your concupiscences.
4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this
world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world,
becometh an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To
envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God
resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil,
and he will fly from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter
be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.
10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will
exalt you.
11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that
detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law, and
judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but
a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is able to
destroy and to deliver.
13 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold,
now you that say: To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and there we
will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our gain.
14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which
appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you
should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.
16 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such
rejoicing is wicked.
17 To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it
not, to him it is sin.
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