Re: What It's Really All About
James 4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
compares these verses with Matt 7. Ye Lust, ye kill, covet and cannot obtain -- this is our dog and swine nature.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Matt 7 talks about "ask and you shall receive, but only after it talks about not giving what is holy to the dogs. The reason your prayers are not answered is because you are asking amiss.
11Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
This corresponds with "judge not lest ye be judged".
Again, I would say that when you read James he brings you back to Jesus.
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