[:en]”When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (v. 3)
“Friendship with the world is hatred toward God. Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God” (v. 4)
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (v. 6)
“Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you” (vs. 7-8)
“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up” (v. 10)
“Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother of judges him speaks against the law and judges it. when you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you – who are you to judge your neighbor?” (vs. 11-12)
“Why, 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. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that” (vs. 14-15)
“Anyone who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins” (v. 17)
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