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From where come wars and from where come conflicts among you? Do they not come from this— from your desires that wage war within your members?
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You desire and do not have. You murder and burn with envy, and are not able to obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
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You ask and do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may spend it upon your desires.
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Adulterous ones, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward Elohim? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.
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Or do you think that the writing speaks emptily: “The ruach which He caused to dwell in us yearns deeply”?
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But He gives greater favor. Therefore it says: “Elohim opposes the proud, but gives favor to the humble.”
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Therefore submit yourselves to Elohim. Resist the adversary, and he shall flee from you.
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Draw near to Elohim, and He shall draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. And purify your hearts, you who are divided within yourselves.
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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.
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Humble yourselves before Yahuah, and He shall lift you up.
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Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against his brother or judges his brother speaks against the Torah and judges the Torah. But if you judge the Torah, you are not a doer of the Torah, but a judge.
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There is one Lawgiver and Judge— the One able to deliver and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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Come now, you who say: “Today or tomorrow we shall go into this city, remain there one year, conduct business, and make profit.”
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Yet you do not know what tomorrow shall bring. For what is your life? You are a mist appearing for a little while and afterward vanishing.
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Instead, you ought to say: “If Yahuah desires, we shall live and do this or that.”
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But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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Therefore, to the one who knows to do what is good and does not do it, to him it is sin.