reworking difficult verse.
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Tom Warren 2016-04-27 19:51:57 -04:00
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\v 4 Like a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, you are being unfaithful to God and not obeying him anymore. Those who behave as evil people do belong to this world and are enemies against God. Perhaps you do not realize that.
\v 5 Surely you do not think that it is for no reason that God told us in the Scriptures that the Spirit he placed in us is deeply concerned for us.
\v 5 Surely you do not think that it is for no reason that God told us in the Scriptures that the Spirit he placed in us yearns for us to live our lives in ways that please him.
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\v 6 But God is powerful and very kind to us, and he wants very much to help us stop sinning. That is why the Scripture says, "God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble."
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\v 7 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and as a result he will run away from you.
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\v 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord; if you do, he will honor you.
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\v 11 My brothers and sisters, stop speaking evil against one another, because those who speak evil against a fellow believer and thus condemn one who is like a brother or sister to them are really speaking against the law that God gave us to obey. If you speak against his law, you are acting like a judge who condemns it.
\v 12 But in fact, there is only one who has the authority to forgive our evil and to condemn people, and that is God. He alone is able to save people or to destroy people. You certainly have no right to take God's place and judge others.
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\v 13 Some of you are arrogantly saying, "Today or tomorrow we will go to a certain city. We will spend a year there and we will buy and sell things and earn a lot of money." Now, you listen to me!
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\v 16 But what you are doing is boasting about all the things that you plan to do. Your boasting like that is evil.
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\v 17 So if anyone knows the right thing that he should do, but he does not do it, he is sinning.