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    "language": "en",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 4
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    "bookSlug": "james",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JAS-4:1",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.1",
        "text": "Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JAS-4:2",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.2",
        "text": "Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JAS-4:3",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.3",
        "text": "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JAS-4:4",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.4",
        "text": "Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JAS-4:5",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.5",
        "text": "Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JAS-4:6",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.6",
        "text": "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JAS-4:7",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.7",
        "text": "Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JAS-4:8",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.8",
        "text": "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JAS-4:9",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.9",
        "text": "Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JAS-4:10",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.10",
        "text": "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JAS-4:11",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.11",
        "text": "Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JAS-4:12",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.12",
        "text": "One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JAS-4:13",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.13",
        "text": "Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JAS-4:14",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.14",
        "text": "whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JAS-4:15",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.15",
        "text": "For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JAS-4:16",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.16",
        "text": "But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JAS-4:17",
        "verseRef": "JAS.4.17",
        "text": "To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
      }
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