James 4:1-12
(English Standard Version)
Pastor: What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?
People: Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
Pastor: You desire and do not have,
People: so you murder.
Pastor: You covet and cannot obtain,
People: so you fight and quarrel.
Pastor: You do not have,
People: because you do not ask.
Pastor: You ask and do not receive,
People: because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Pastor: You adulterous people!
People: Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Pastor: Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
People: Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says,
Pastor: “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
People: But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Pastor: Submit yourselves therefore to God.
People: Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Pastor: Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
People: Cleanse your hands, you sinners,
Pastor: and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
People: Be wretched and mourn and weep.
Pastor: Let your laughter be turned to mourning
People: and your joy to gloom.
Pastor: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
People: Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.
Pastor: The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother,
People: speaks evil against the law and judges the law.
Pastor: But if you judge the law,
People: you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Pastor: There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy.
People: But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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