To: ALL
WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From;
GOD THE FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the
HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John
14:16]
Subject:
MY WORD
James 4:1–17 (ESV) 1 What causes quarrels and what
causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within
you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and
cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not
ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend
it on your passions. 4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that
friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a
friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you
suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives
grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves 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, and purify your
hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let
your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble
yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11 Do not speak
evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or
judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you
judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There
is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who
are you to judge your neighbor? 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or
tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade
and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.
What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then
vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will
live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance.
All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do
and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
James 4:5–6 (AMP) 5 Or do you suppose
that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has
caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be
welcome] with a jealous love? 6 But He gives us more and more grace
(power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully).
That is why He says, God sets Himself
against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly
(those who are humble enough to receive it).
James 4:5–6 (The Living Bible) 5 Or what do you think the Scripture means when it says that the
Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within us, watches over us with tender
jealousy? 6 But he gives us more and more strength to stand against
all such evil longings. As the Scripture says, God gives strength to the humble but sets himself against the proud
and haughty.
James 4:5–6 (AV) 5 Do ye think that the
scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
James 4:5–6 (CJB) 5 Or do you suppose
the Scripture speaks in vain when it says that there is a spirit in us which
longs to envy? 6 But the grace he gives is greater, which is why it
says, “God opposes the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace.”
Isaiah 57:15 (ESV) 15 For thus says the
One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I
dwell in the high and holy place, and
also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of
the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:15 (AMP) 15 For thus says the
high and lofty One—He Who inhabits eternity, Whose name is Holy: I dwell in the
high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and
humble spirit, to revive the spirit of
the humble and to revive the heart of the thoroughly penitent [bruised with
sorrow for sin].
