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Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: Explain This Verse
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But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. Explain This Verse
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For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Explain This Verse
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Explain This Verse
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Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: Explain This Verse
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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Explain This Verse
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Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Explain This Verse
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Explain This Verse
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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Explain This Verse
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: Explain This Verse
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For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Explain This Verse
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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Explain This Verse
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Explain This Verse
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For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: Explain This Verse
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For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. Explain This Verse
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But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. Explain This Verse
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If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Explain This Verse
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Explain This Verse