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but gives grace to the humble. [4:7]Be subject therefore to God; resist
the devil and he will flee from you; [4:8]draw nigh to God and he will
draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts,
double-minded. [4:9]Lament, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be
turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. [4:10]Humble
yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

4 [4:11]Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks
against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and
judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law,
but a judge. [4:12]There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to
save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?

5 [4:13]Come now, you that say, To-day and to-morrow we will go to such
a city and engage in business there a year, and trade and make profits,
[4:14]who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away;
[4:15]for you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall both live and
do this or that. [4:16]But now you glory in your boasting; all such
glorying is evil. [4:17]He therefore that knows how to do good and does
it not, to him it is sin.

6 [5:1]Come now, rich men, weep and lament for the miseries which are
coming upon you. [5:2]Your riches have decayed, and your garments are
moth-eaten, [5:3]your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and
their rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like
fire. You have laid up treasures for the last days. [5:4]Behold, the
wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry,
and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the
Lord of sabaoth. [5:5]You have lived in luxury on the earth and in
pleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
[5:6]You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.

7 [5:7]Wait patiently therefore, brothers, till the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and
is of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain.
[5:8]Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the
coming of the Lord is at hand. [5:9] Complain not, brothers, against
one another, that you be not judged; behold, the judge stands before
the doors. [5:10]You have the prophets who spoke in the name of the
Lord, my brothers, as an exampl