Hello, and welcome
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today
we will continue to read in the
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book of Hebrews.
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But before we read
together, lets pray.
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Dear Jesus, thank You again
for the blessing of Your word to
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read to strengthen
us and to guide us.
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We've been spending time reading
about the heroes of faith
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in the Bible; men and women
like us who actually lived,
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for pretty much of us, a
lot harder lives than we've seen
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so far.
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We haven't yet been tortured
for You, and we haven't been
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imprisoned, most of us, for You;
and yet we find our faith is so
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weak sometimes.
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We want to be strong.
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We long to be like the
men and women that we've
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read about here.
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Please come and take our feeble
faith and make it burn brighter.
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We're like the father in the
story that said, Lord I believe
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but help my unbelief.
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Take our hearts and make them
fully Yours so that we may be
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of service to You, and to
each other, to the glory of
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Your name.
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We love You so much,
and thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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We're continuing to read
in Hebrews, and the verse that
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we're going to start on
is chapter 13, and verse 15.
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It has a phrase in it
that I've always loved.
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I think of it often when I
sit down to play the piano.
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It talks about the
sacrifice of praise.
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And that is what He is
looking for from each one of us;
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a sacrifice of praise to Him.
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We're created to
show forth His praise.
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Let's read now Hebrews
13, starting with verse 15.
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This is the King James Version.
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By him therefore let us offer
the sacrifice of praise to God
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continually, that is,
the fruit of our lips,
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giving thanks to his name.
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But to do good and to
communicate forget not:
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for with such
sacrifices God is well-pleased.
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Obey them that have the rule
over you, and submit yourselves:
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for they watch for your souls,
as they that must give account,
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that they may do it
with joy, and not with grief:
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for that is
unprofitable for you.
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Pray for us: for we trust
we have a good conscience,
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in all things
willing to live honestly.
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But I beseech you the rather to
do this, that I may be restored
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to you the sooner.
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Now the God of peace, that
brought again from the dead our
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Lord Jesus, that great shepherd
of the sheep, through the blood
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of the everlasting covenant,
make you perfect in every good
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work to do his will, working in
you that which is well-pleasing
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in his sight, through
Jesus Christ; to whom be glory
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for ever and ever.
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Amen.
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And I beseech you, brethren,
suffer the word of exhortation:
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for I have written a
letter unto you in few words.
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Know ye that our brother Timothy
is set at liberty; with whom,
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if he come
shortly, I will see you.
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Salute all them that
have the rule over you,
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and all the saints.
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They of Italy salute you.
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Grace be with you all.
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Amen.
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Continuing now to read
the general epistle of James,
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and this is the King
James Version; James chapter 1.
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James a servant of God
and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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to the twelve tribes which
are scattered abroad, greeting.
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My brethren, count it all
joy when ye fall into divers
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temptations; knowing this,
that the trying of your faith
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worketh patience.
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But let patience have her
perfect work, that ye may be
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perfect and
entire, wanting nothing.
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If any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God,
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that giveth to all men
liberally, and upbraideth not;
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and it shall be given him.
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But let him ask in
faith, nothing wavering.
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For he that wavereth is like a
wave of the sea driven with the
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wind and tossed.
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For let not that man think
that he shall receive any thing
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of the Lord.
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A double-minded man is
unstable in all his ways.
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Let the brother of low degree
rejoice in that he is exalted:
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but the rich, in that he is made
low: because as the flower of
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the grass he shall pass away.
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For the sun is no sooner
risen with a burning heat,
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but it withereth the grass,
and the flower thereof falleth,
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and the grace of the fashion of
it perisheth: so also shall the
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rich man fade away in his ways.
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Blessed is the man that endureth
temptation: for when he is
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tried, he shall receive the
crown of life, which the Lord
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hath promised to
them that love him.
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Let no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God:
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for God cannot be tempted
with evil, neither tempteth he
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any man: but every man is
tempted, when he is drawn away
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of his own lust, and enticed.
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Then when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
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when it is finished,
bringeth forth death.
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Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above,
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and cometh down from the Father
of lights, with whom is no
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variableness,
neither shadow of turning.
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Of his own will begat he
us with the word of truth,
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that we should be a kind of
first fruits of his creatures.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear,
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slow to speak, slow to wrath:
for the wrath of man worketh not
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the righteousness of God.
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Wherefore lay apart all
filthiness and superfluity of
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naughtiness, and receive with
meekness the engrafted word,
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which is able
to save your souls.
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But be ye doers of the
word, and not hearers only,
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deceiving your own selves.
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For if any be a hearer
of the word, and not a doer,
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he is like unto a man beholding
his natural face in a glass:
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for he beholdeth
himself, and goeth his way,
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and straightway forgetteth
what manner of man he was.
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But whoso looketh into
the perfect law of liberty,
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and continueth therein, he
being not a forgetful hearer,
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but a doer of the work, this man
shall be blessed in his deed.
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If any man among you seem to be
religious, and bridleth not his
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tongue, but deceiveth
his own heart, this man's
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religion is vain.
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Pure religion and undefiled
before God and the Father
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is this, to visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction,
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and to keep himself
unspotted from the world.
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Continuing to read in
the book of James, chapter 2.
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My brethren, have not the
faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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the Lord of glory,
with respect of persons.
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For if there come unto your
assembly a man with a gold ring,
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in goodly apparel, and
there come in also a poor man
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in vile raiment; and ye have
respect to him that weareth the
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gay clothing, and say unto him,
Sit thou here in a good place;
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and say to the poor, Stand
thou there, or sit here under my
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footstool: are ye not
then partial in yourselves,
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and are become
judges of evil thoughts?
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Hearken, my beloved brethren,
Hath not God chosen the poor
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of this world rich in faith,
and heirs of the kingdom which
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he hath promised
to them that love him?
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But ye have despised the poor.
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Do not rich men oppress
you, and draw you before the
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judgment seats?
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Do not they blaspheme
that worthy name by the which
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ye are called?
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If ye fulfill the royal
law according to the scripture,
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Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
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but if ye have respect
to persons, ye commit sin,
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and are convinced of
the law as transgressors.
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For whosoever shall keep the
whole law, and yet offend in one
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point, he is guilty of all.
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For he that said, Do not
commit adultery, said also,
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Do not kill.
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Now if thou commit no
adultery, yet if thou kill,
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thou art become a
transgressor of the law.
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So speak ye, and so do,
as they that shall be judged
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by the law of liberty.
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For he shall have judgment
without mercy, that hath shown
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no mercy; and mercy
rejoiceth against judgment.
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What doeth it profit, my
brethren, though a man say he
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hath faith, and have not
works? can faith save him?
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If a brother or sister be naked,
and destitute of daily food,
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and one of you say unto them,
Depart in peace, be ye warmed
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and filled; notwithstanding ye
give them not those things which
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are needful to the
body; what doth it profit?
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Even so faith, if it hath
not works, is dead, being alone.
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Yea, a man may say, Thou
hast faith, and I have works:
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show me thy faith without thy
works, and I will show thee my
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faith by my works.
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Thou believest that there
is one God; thou doest well:
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the devils also
believe, and tremble.
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But wilt thou know, O
vain man, that faith without
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works is dead?
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Was not Abraham our father
justified by works, when he had
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offered Isaac his
son upon the altar?
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Seest thou how faith wrought
with his works, and by works
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was faith made perfect?
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And the scripture was fulfilled
which saith, Abraham believed
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God, and it was imputed
unto him for righteousness:
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and he was called
the friend of God.
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Ye see then how that by
works a man is justified,
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and not by faith only.
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Likewise also was not Rahab
the harlot justified by works,
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when she had received the
messengers, and had sent them
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out another way?
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For as the body without the
spirit is dead, so faith without
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works is dead also.
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Continuing to read in
the book of James, chapter 3.
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My brethren, be not many
masters, knowing that we shall
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receive the
greater condemnation.
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For in many
things we offend all.
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If any man offend not in
word, the same is a perfect man,
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and able also to
bridle the whole body.
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Behold, we put bits in the
horses' mouths, that they may
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obey us; and we turn
about their whole body.
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Behold also the ships,
which though they be so great,
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and are driven of fierce winds,
yet are they turned about with a
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very small helm, whithersoever
the governor listeth.
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Even so the tongue is a
little member, and boasteth
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great things.
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Behold, how great a
matter a little fire kindleth!
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And the tongue is a
fire, a world of iniquity:
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so is the tongue among
our members, that it defileth
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the whole body, and setteth
on fire the course of nature;
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and it is set on fire of hell.
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For every kind of beasts,
and of birds, and of serpents,
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and of things in the sea, is
tamed, and hath been tamed of
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mankind: but the tongue can no
man tame; it is an unruly evil,
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full of deadly poison.
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Therewith bless we
God, even the Father;
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and therewith curse we
men, which are made after the
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similtude of God.
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out of the same mouth
proceedeth blessing and cursing.
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My brethren, these
things ought not so to be.
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Doth a fountain send forth
at the same place sweet water
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and bitter?
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Can the fig tree, my
brethren, bear olive berries?
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either a vine, figs? so can no
fountain both yield salt water
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and fresh.
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Who is a wise man and
endued with knowledge among you?
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let him show out of a good
conversation his works with
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meekness of wisdom.
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But if ye have bitter envying
and strife in your hearts,
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glory not, and lie
not against the truth.
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This wisdom descendeth not
from above, but is earthly,
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sensual, devilish.
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For where envying and strife
is, there is confusion and every
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evil work.
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But the wisdom that is
from above is first pure,
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then peaceable, gentle,
and easy to be entreated,
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full of mercy and good
fruits, without partiality,
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and without hypocrisy.
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And the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace of them
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that make peace.
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Continuing with
James, Chapter 4.
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From whence come wars
and fightings among you?
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come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war
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in your members?
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Ye lust, and have not:
ye kill, and desire to have,
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and cannot obtain: ye
fight and war, yet ye have not,
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because ye ask not.
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Ye ask, and receive
not, because ye ask amiss,
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that ye may
consume it upon your lusts.
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses,
know ye not that the friendship
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of the world is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a
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friend of the world
is the enemy of God.
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Do ye think that the scripture
saith in vain, The spirit that
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dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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But he giveth more grace.
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