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But the kindness God shows is greater. As the Scripture says, “God is against the proud, but he is kind to the humble.”[a]

So give yourselves to God. Stand against the devil, and he will run away from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives.[b] You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:6 Quote from Prov. 3:34.
  2. James 4:8 so clean sin out of your lives Literally, “so wash your hands.”

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