James 4:1-4

Warning Against Worldliness

1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions
Greek pleasures; also verse 3
are bat war within you?
Greek in your members
2You 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. 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask dwrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 eYou adulterous people!
Greek  You adulteresses!
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? gTherefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

James 5:1-6

Warning to the Rich

1Come now, hyou rich, weep and howl for the imiseries that are coming upon you. 2 jYour riches have rotted and kyour garments are moth-eaten. 3Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. lYou have laid up treasure min the last days. 4Behold, nthe wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and othe cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of pthe Lord of hosts. 5 qYou have lived on the earth in luxury and rin self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in sa day of slaughter. 6You have condemned and tmurdered uthe righteous person. He does not resist you.

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