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   Bible Reading for November 16   
      
   James 3   
   [1] My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the   
   greater condemnation.   
   [2] For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same   
   is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. [3] Behold, we put   
   bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their   
   whole body.   
   [4] Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of   
   fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever   
   the governor listeth. [5] Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth   
   great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! [6] And the   
   tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members,   
   that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and   
   it is set on fire of hell. [7] For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of   
   serpents, and of things 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 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 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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