A Warning against Pride
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? 1 1Pe 2:11Gal 5:17Rom 7:23Jas 1:14Rom 8:71Jn 2:15-17Jer 17:9Jud 1:16-18 You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. Jhn 16:24Mat 7:7-8Jas 1:5Luk 11:9-13Jhn 4:101Ti 6:9-10Jas 5:1-5Pro 1:19 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. 1Jn 5:141Jn 3:22Jas 1:6-7Jas 4:1Pro 15:8Mic 3:4Psa 66:18-19Job 35:12
You adulteresses! 2 Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself 3an enemy of God. 1Jn 2:15-16Rom 8:7Jhn 15:19Mat 6:24Gal 1:10Jhn 17:14Jas 1:27Jhn 15:23-24 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit 4He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy? 2Co 6:161Co 6:19Num 11:29Tit 3:3Gen 8:21Psa 37:1Gen 6:5Gen 26:14 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: Mat 23:12Pro 3:341Pe 5:5Pro 18:12Psa 138:6Pro 29:23Pro 6:16-17Pro 22:4
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.” 5
Drawing Near to God
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 1Pe 5:8-9Eph 4:27Eph 6:11-121Pe 5:6Luk 4:2-13Mat 4:3-11Heb 12:9Rom 10:3 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Psa 145:18Heb 10:22Mal 3:7Zec 1:3Isa 55:6-72Ch 15:2Hos 6:1-2Jer 4:14 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. Mat 5:42Co 7:10-11Luk 6:25Pro 14:13Jas 5:1-2Psa 119:67Ecc 7:2-6Ezk 16:63 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you. Mat 23:12Psa 147:61Pe 5:6Luk 14:11Jas 4:6-7Job 22:29Luk 1:52Psa 113:7
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it. 1Pe 2:1Jas 5:9Rom 2:1Luk 6:37Mat 7:1-2Psa 140:11Rom 14:10-121Co 4:5 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? Rom 14:4Rom 2:1Mat 10:28Isa 33:22Heb 7:25Jas 5:9Rom 14:13Job 38:2
Do Not Boast about Tomorrow
(Proverbs 27:1)
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” Pro 27:1Luk 12:17-20Gen 11:3-4Ecc 2:1Ezk 7:12Isa 24:2Isa 56:11-12Jas 5:1 You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 1Pe 1:24Psa 39:51Jn 2:17Psa 102:3Job 7:6-7Jas 1:10Job 14:1-2Job 9:25-26
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” Pro 19:21Heb 6:3Lam 3:37Act 18:21Rom 1:101Co 16:7Rom 15:321Co 4:19 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. Pro 27:11Co 5:6Psa 52:7Pro 25:141Co 4:7-8Isa 47:10Jas 3:14Psa 52:1 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin. Jhn 9:41Jhn 13:17Jhn 15:222Pe 2:21Luk 12:47-48Rom 1:32Rom 2:17-23Rom 1:20-21