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8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. 9 Be bitterly afflicted and lament, and let your tears run down; let your laughter be converted into mourning, and your joy into dejection. 10 Be humbled in the presence of God, so he will exalt you. 11 Traduce not one another, brethren. He that traduceth his brother, and judgeth his brother, traduceth the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but as judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who can save or destroy: who art thou that judgest another man? 13 Come now, ye that talk, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a town, and do business there during one year, and traffic, and make great profits: 14 though ye know nothing of what shall be to-morrow. For what is your life? It is but a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and then vanishes away. 15 Instead of your saying, If the Lord pleases, and we are alive, then we will do this or that thing. 16 But now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked. 17 Therefore if a man knoweth how to act properly, and doth not, he is criminal. James 4:8-17, Haweis New Testament. Public domain.
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