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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: James 4

Chapter 4

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

whence

3:14-18

fightings

or, brawlings. come they.

1:14 Genesis 4:5-8 Jeremiah 17:9 Matthew 15:19 Mark 7:21-23 John 8:44 Romans 8:7 1 Timothy 6:4-10 Titus 3:3 1 Peter 1:14 2:11 4:2,3 2 Peter 2:18 3:3 1 John 2:15-17 Jude 1:16-18

lusts

or, pleasures.

3

in

Romans 7:5,23 Galatians 5:17 Colossians 3:5

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.

lust

5:1-5 Proverbs 1:19 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Habakkuk 2:5 1 Timothy 6:9,10

kill

or, envy. because.

1:5 Isaiah 7:12 Matthew 7:7,8 Luke 11:9-13 John 4:10 16:24

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

ask, and

1:6,7 Job 27:8-10 35:12 Psalms 18:41 66:18,19 Proverbs 1:28 15:8 Proverbs 21:13,27 Isaiah 1:15,16 Jeremiah 11:11,14 14:12 Micah 3:4 Zechariah 7:13 Matthew 20:22 Mark 10:38 1 John 3:22 5:14

ye may

Luke 15:13,30 16:1,2

lusts

or, pleasures.

1

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.

adulterers

Psalms 50:18 73:27 Isaiah 57:3 Jeremiah 9:2 Hosea 3:1 Matthew 12:39 16:4

the friendship

John 7:7 15:19,23 17:14 1 John 2:15,16

enmity

Genesis 3:15 Romans 8:7

whosoever

Galatians 1:10

is the

Psalms 21:8 Luke 19:27 John 15:23,24 Romans 5:10

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

the scripture

John 7:42 10:35 19:37 Romans 9:17 Galatians 3:8

The spirit

Genesis 4:5,6 6:5 8:21 26:14 30:1 37:11 Numbers 11:29 Psalms 37:1 106:16 Proverbs 21:10 Ecclesiastes 4:4 Isaiah 11:13 Acts 7:9 Romans 1:29 Titus 3:3

to envy

or, enviously.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

God

Exodus 10:3,4 15:9,10 18:11 1 Samuel 2:3 Job 22:29 40:10-12 Psalms 138:6 Proverbs 3:34 6:16,17 29:23 Isaiah 2:11,12,17 10:8-14 16:6,7 Daniel 4:37 Daniel 5:20-23 Matthew 23:12 Luke 1:52 14:11 18:14 1 Peter 5:5

giveth grace

2 Chronicles 32:26 33:12,19,23 34:27 Job 22:29 Psalms 9:12 Proverbs 15:33 18:12 Proverbs 22:4 Isaiah 57:15

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Submit

1 Samuel 3:18 2 Samuel 15:26 2 Kings 1:13-15 2 Chronicles 30:8 33:12,13 Job 1:21 Job 40:3-5 42:1-6 Psalms 32:3-5 66:3 68:30 Jeremiah 13:18 Daniel 4:25,32,34-37 Matthew 11:29 Acts 9:6 16:29-31 26:19 Romans 10:3 14:11 Ephesians 5:21 Hebrews 12:9 1 Peter 2:13

Resist

Matthew 4:3-11 Luke 4:2-13 Ephesians 4:27 6:11,12 1 Peter 5:8,9 Revelation 12:9-11

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Draw nigh to God

Genesis 18:23 1 Chronicles 28:9 2 Chronicles 15:2 Psalms 73:28 145:18 Isaiah 29:13 55:6,7 Hosea 6:1,2 Zechariah 1:3 Malachi 3:7 Hebrews 7:19 10:22

Cleanse

Job 9:30 16:17 17:9 Psalms 18:20 24:4 26:6 73:13 Isaiah 1:15,16 13:15 Matthew 15:2 27:24 1 Timothy 2:8 1 Peter 3:21

purity

Psalms 51:6,7,10 Jeremiah 4:11 Ezekiel 18:31 36:25-27 Matthew 12:33 23:25,26 Luke 11:39,40 Acts 15:9 2 Corinthians 7:1 1 Peter 1:22 1 John 3:3

ye double

1:8

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

afflicted

5:1,2 Psalms 119:67,71,136 126:5,6 Ecclesiastes 7:2-5 Isaiah 22:12,13 Jeremiah 31:9,13,18-20 Ezekiel 7:16 16:63 Zechariah 12:10-14 Matthew 5:4 Luke 6:21 2 Corinthians 7:10,11

let

Job 30:31 Proverbs 14:13 Ecclesiastes 2:2 7:6 Lamentations 5:15 Luke 6:25 16:25 Revelation 18:7,8

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Humble

6,7

he

1 Samuel 2:9 Job 22:29 Psalms 27:6 28:9 30:1 113:7 147:6 Matthew 23:12 Luke 14:11 18:14 1 Peter 5:6

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Speak

Psalms 140:11 Ephesians 4:31 1 Timothy 3:11 2 Timothy 3:3 Titus 2:3 1 Peter 2:1

and judgeth

Matthew 7:1,2 Luke 6:37 Romans 2:1 14:3,4,10-12 1 Corinthians 4:5

speaketh evil of the law

Romans 7:7,12,13

a doer

1:22,23,25 Romans 2:13

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

lawgiver

Isaiah 33:22

able

Matthew 10:28 Luke 12:5 Hebrews 7:25

who

1 Samuel 25:10 Job 38:2 Romans 2:1 9:20 14:4,13

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Go to

5:1 Genesis 11:3,4,7 Ecclesiastes 2:1 Isaiah 5:5

To day

Proverbs 27:1 Isaiah 56:12 Luke 12:17-20

and buy

Isaiah 24:2 56:11 Ezekiel 7:12 1 Corinthians 7:30

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

It is

or, For it is. a vapour.

1:10 Job 7:6,7 9:25,26 14:1,2 Psalms 39:5 89:47 90:5-7 102:3 Isaiah 38:12 1 Peter 1:24 4:7 1 John 2:17

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

If

2 Samuel 15:25,26 Proverbs 19:21 Lamentations 3:37 Acts 18:21 Romans 1:10 15:32 1 Corinthians 4:19 1 Corinthians 16:7 Hebrews 6:3

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

3:14 Psalms 52:1,7 Proverbs 25:14 27:1 Isaiah 47:7,8,10 1 Corinthians 4:7,8 5:6 Revelation 18:7

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Luke 12:47,48 John 9:41 13:17 15:22 Romans 1:20,21,32 2:17-23 7:13