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   Bob Hoffman to All   
   Bible Reading for December 21 (2/2)   
   18 Dec 25 15:46:37   
   
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   in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:   
      
   8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly   
   poison.   
      
   9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men,   
   which are made after the similitude of God.   
      
   10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren,   
   these things ought not so to be.   
      
   11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?   
      
   12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine,   
   figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.   
      
   13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew   
   out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.   
      
   14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not,   
   and lie not against the truth.   
      
   15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.   
      
   16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.   
      
   17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,   
   gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without   
   partiality, and without hypocrisy.   
      
   18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.   
      
   James Chapter 4   
      
   1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,   
   even of your lusts that war in your members?   
      
   2 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.   
      
   3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it   
   upon your lusts.   
      
   4 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.   
      
   5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth   
   in us lusteth to envy?   
      
   6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud,   
   but giveth grace unto the humble.   
      
   7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee   
   from you.   
      
   8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye   
   sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.   
      
   9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to   
   mourning, and your joy to heaviness.   
      
   10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.   
      
   11 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.   
      
   12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art   
   thou that judgest another?   
      
   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:   
      
   14 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.   
      
   15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do   
   this, or that.   
      
   16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.   
      
   17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it   
   is sin.   
      
   James Chapter 5   
      
   1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall   
   come upon you.   
      
   2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.   
      
   3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a   
   witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have   
   heaped treasure together for the last days.   
      
   4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields,   
   which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which   
   have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.   
      
   5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have   
   nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.   
      
   6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.   
      
   7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold,   
   the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath   
   long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.   
      
   8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord   
   draweth nigh.   
      
   9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned:   
   behold, the judge standeth before the door.   
      
   10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the   
   Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.   
      
   11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the   
   patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is   
   very pitiful, and of tender mercy.   
      
   12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven,   
   neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be   
   yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.   
      
   13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing   
   psalms.   
      
   14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and   
   let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:   
      
   15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise   
   him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.   
      
   16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye   
   may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth   
   much.   
      
   17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed   
   earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the   
   space of three years and six months.   
      
   18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought   
   forth her fruit.   
      
   19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;   
      
   20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of   
   his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.   
      
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