James 4:3-4
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts. 4. You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

“You should know than the remedy against temptation is not only prayer but also spiritual joy, and joy turned into gladness. ‘Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,’ exhorts the Saviour (Matthew 5:12).
Some people might think this is a pleonasm, but joy and gladness are not the same thing. Joy is a spiritual state that you feel vibrating in you; you have a state of joy. Gladness is the manifestation of this joy, the fruit of internal joy.

When your soul is sad, when your soul is closed off, it cannot be glad. And we absolutely need to cultivate joy.

—His Eminence Iustinian Chira, Archbishop of Maramures, Romania (1921 - 2016)

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James 4:5-6
Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy? 6. But he gives more grace. Why he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

"If you wish to attain true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love."

+ St John Cassian

James 4:7-8
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.

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Google unveils new AI-powered Android spyware..

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James 4:9-10
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.

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Slavery the Scriptures and Christianity

The Bible supports slavery?

James 4:11-12
Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

Anaxios: Unworthy and Evil
https://orthochristian.com/162886.html

Fr. Lawrence Farley

We are not worth the suffering caused to the sinless Son of God. And yet of course that was why He suffered for us, the sinless for the sinful, the innocent for the guilty, the immortal God for mortal and dying men.

Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemns Israel’s stance against Christian freedom of worship
https://orthochristian.com/162984.html

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem “earnestly hopes that Israeli authorities will reassess their stance towards non-Jewish religious practices, affirm the fundamental rights of Christians, and resist yielding to dominating radical tendencies.”

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Kiev bans the Orthodox Church

https://t.me/thereversion/1557

James 4:13-14
Go to now, you 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 you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

If God Wills - God willing

James 4:15-16
For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16. But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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James 4:17
Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.