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The Book of James, Chapter 3, Verse 15

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This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
King James Version
For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
American Standard Version
For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.
New English Translation
You ought to say instead,“If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”
World English Bible
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a 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 dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.