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| 4:1 | Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? |
| 4:2 | ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; |
| 4:3 | ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'. |
| 4:4 | Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set. |
| 4:5 | Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' |
| 4:6 | and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?' |
| 4:7 | be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; |
| 4:8 | draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! |
| 4:9 | be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; |
| 4:10 | be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you. |
| 4:11 | Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; |
| 4:12 | one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other? |
| 4:13 | Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' |
| 4:14 | who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; |
| 4:15 | instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;' |
| 4:16 | and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil; |
| 4:17 | to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him. |
| 4:1 | From whence commeth warre and fighttynge amonge you: come they not here hence? even of youre volupteousnes that rayne in youre members. |
| 4:2 | Ye lust and have not. Ye envie and have indignacion and cannot obtayne. Ye fight and warre and have not because ye axe not. |
| 4:3 | Ye axe and receave not because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it apon youre volupteousnes. |
| 4:4 | Ye advouterars and wemen that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how yt the freshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to god warde? Whosoever wilbe a frende of the worlde is made the enemie of god. |
| 4:5 | Ether do ye thinke that the scripture sayth in vayne The sprite that dwelleth in you lusteth eve contrary to envie: |
| 4:6 | but geveth more grace. |
| 4:7 | Submit youre selves to god and resist the devyll and he will flye from you. |
| 4:8 | Drawe nye to god and he will drawe nye to you. Clense youre hondes ye synners and pourdge youre hertes ye waverynge mynded. |
| 4:9 | Suffre affliccios: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge and youre ioye to hevynes. |
| 4:10 | Cast doune youre selves before the lorde and he shall lift you vp. |
| 4:11 | Backbyte not one another brethren. He that backbyteh hys brother and he that iudgeth his brother backbyteth the lawe and iudgeth the lawe. But and yf thou iudge the lawe thou art not an observer of ye lawe: but a iudge. |
| 4:12 | Ther is one lawe gever which is able to save and to distroye. What art thou that iudgest another man? |
| 4:13 | Go to now ye that saye: to daye and to morow let vs go into soche a citie and continue there a yeare and bye and sell and wynne: |
| 4:14 | and yet can not tell what shall happen to morowe. For what thynge is youre lyfe? It is even a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme and the vanyssheth awaye: |
| 4:15 | For that ye ought to saye: yf the lorde will and yf we live let vs do this or that. |
| 4:16 | But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is evyll. |
| 4:17 | Therfore to him that knoweth how to do good and doth it not to him it is synne. |
| 4:1 | From whence commeth warre and fightynge amonge you: come they not here hence? euen of yor volupteousnesses that rayne in youre mebres? |
| 4:2 | Ye lust, and haue not. Ye envie and haue indignacion, and can not obtayne. Ye fight & warre, and haue not, because ye axe not. |
| 4:3 | Ye axe & receaue not because ye axe amysse: eue to cosume it vpo yor voluptuousnes. |
| 4:4 | Ye aduouterars, & weme that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how that the frenshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to godwarde? Whosoeuer wilbe a frende of the worlde, is made ye enemie of god. |
| 4:5 | Ether do ye thinke yt the scripture sayth in vayne. The sprete yt dwelleth in you, lusteth euen contrary to enuie: |
| 4:6 | but geueth more grace. |
| 4:7 | Submit youre selues to God, and resist the deuell, & he wil flye fro you. |
| 4:8 | Drawe nye to God & he wil drawe nye to you. Clense yor hondes ye synners, and pourge youre hertes ye wauerynge mynded. |
| 4:9 | Suffre affliccions: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge, and youre ioye to heuynes. |
| 4:10 | Cast downe youre selues before the LORDE, and he shal lift you vp. |
| 4:11 | Backbyte not one another, brethren. He that backbyteth his brother, and he yt iudgeth his brother, backbyteth the lawe, and iudgeth the lawe. But and yf thou iudge the lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the lawe: but a iudge. |
| 4:12 | There is one lawe geuer, which is able to saue and to distroye. What art thou that iudgest another man? |
| 4:13 | Go to now ye that saye: to daye & to morow let vs go into soche a citie and continue there a yeare, and bye and sell, and wynne: |
| 4:14 | & yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye: |
| 4:15 | For that ye ought to say: yf the LORDE wil, and yf we liue, let vs do this or that. |
| 4:16 | But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is euell. |
| 4:17 | Therfore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not, to him it is synne. |
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