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James 4:1-17 (Good News Translation)  1Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you.           2You want things, but you cannot have them, so you are ready to kill; you strongly desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it.           3And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.           4Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.           5Don't think that there is no truth in the scripture that says,          "The spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce desires."           6But the grace that God gives is even stronger. As the scripture says,          "God resis...

James 3:1-18 (Good News Translation)  1My friends, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others.           2All of us often make mistakes. But if a person never makes a mistake in what he says, he is perfect and is also able to control his whole being.           3We put a bit into the mouth of a horse to make it obey us, and we are able to make it go where we want.           4Or think of a ship: big as it is and driven by such strong winds, it can be steered by a very small rudder, and it goes wherever the pilot wants it to go.           5So it is with the tongue: small as it is, it can boast about great things.          Just think how large a forest can be set on fire by a tiny flame!           6And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it fro...

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 (Good News Translation)  1Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses.           2He sets the time for birth and the time for death,             the time for planting and the time for pulling up,               3the time for killing and the time for healing,             the time for tearing down and the time for building.               4He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy,             the time for mourning and the time for dancing,               5the time for making love and the time for not making love,             the time for kissing and the time for not kissing.               6He sets the time for finding and the time for losing,             the time for saving and the time for throwing away,               7the time for tearing and the time for mending,             the time for silence and the time for talk.               8He sets the time for love and the time for hate,             the time for war and the time for pea...

Luke 16:14-31 (Good News Translation)  14When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.           15Jesus said to them,          You are the ones who make yourselves look right in other people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For the things that are considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.           16The Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were in effect up to the time of John the Baptist; since then the Good News about the Kingdom of God is being told, and everyone forces their way in.           17But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with.           18Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.           19There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.           20There was also ...

Luke 12:13-31 (Good News Translation)  13A man in the crowd said to Jesus,          "Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the property our father left us."           14Jesus answered him,          "Friend, who gave me the right to judge or to divide the property between you two?"           15And he went on to say to them all,          "Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be."           16Then Jesus told them this parable:          "There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops.           17He began to think to himself,          'I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do?           18This is what I will do,          ' he told himself;          'I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods.           19Then I will say to myself, Lucky ...

"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in meekness of wisdom."   May God bless bless you and keep you. Amen.

"I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood."   May God bless you and keep you in His care. Amen.

Job 34:1-37 (Good News Translation)  1-2You men are so wise, so clever;            listen now to what I am saying.               3You know good food when you taste it,            but not wise words when you hear them.               4It is up to us to decide the case.               5Job claims that he is innocent,            that God refuses to give him justice.               6He asks,              "How could I lie and say I am wrong?            I am fatally wounded, but I am sinless."               7Have you ever seen anyone like this man Job?            He never shows respect for God.               8He likes the company of evil people            and goes around with sinners.               9He says that it never does any good            to try to follow God's will.               10Listen to me, you men who understand!            Will Almighty God do what is wrong?               11He rewards people for what they do            and treats them as they deserve.          ...

"When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the alter the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, 'How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servents and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed."   God bless you.

"When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, 'Come and see.' So I looked and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and hades follewed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth."   God bless you.