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| [1]From whence cometh warre and fightyng among you? come they not here hence, euen of your lustes that fight in your members |
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| [2]Ye lust, and haue not: Ye enuie, and haue indignation, and can not obtayne: Ye fyght and warre, ye haue not, because ye aske not |
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| [3]Ye aske and receaue not, because ye aske amisse, euen to consume it vpon your lustes |
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| [4]Ye adulterers & adultresses, knowe you not howe that the frendship of the world is enmitie with God? Whosoeuer therfore wylbe a friende of the worlde, is made the enemie of God |
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| [5]Either do ye thynke that the scripture sayth in vayne, the spirite that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie |
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| [6]But [the scripture] offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace vnto ye lowlie |
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| [7]Submit your selues therfore to God: but resist the deuyll, and he wyll flee from you |
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| [8]Drawe nye to God, and he wyll drawe nye to you. Clense your handes ye sinners, and purifie your heartes ye double mynded |
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| [9]Suffer afflictions, and mourne, and weepe: Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioy to heauinesse |
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| [10]Humble your selues in the sight of the Lorde, and he shall lyft you vp |
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| [11]Backbite not one another brethren. He that backbiteth his brother, and he that iudgeth his brother, backbiteth ye lawe, and iudgeth the lawe: But and yf thou iudge the lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the lawe, but a iudge |
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| [12]There is one lawe geuer, which is able to saue and to destroy. What art thou that iudgest another |
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| [13]Go to nowe ye that say, to day and to morowe let vs go into such a citie, and continue there a yere, and bye and sell, and wynne |
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| [14]And yet can not ye tel what shall happen on the morowe. For what thyng is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that appeareth for a litle tyme, and then he vanisheth away |
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| [15]For that ye ought to say: If the Lorde wyll, and yf we lyue, let vs do this or that |
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| [16]But now ye reioyce in your boastinges: All such reioycyng is euyll |
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| [17]Therfore to hym that knoweth howe to do good, and doth it not, to hym it is sinne |
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