Vamistoso's Highlights
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:16 NLT
Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:15 NLT
What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:12 NLT
God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:11 NLT
Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. If you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:10 NLT
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:9 NLT
Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:8 NLT
Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:7 NLT
So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:6 NLT
And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:5 NLT
Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:4 NLT
You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:3 NLT
And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:2 NLT
You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 4:1 NLT
What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 3:18 NLT
And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 3:17 NLT
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 3:16 NLT
For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 3:15 NLT
For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 3:14 NLT
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying.
May 3
Vamistoso
highlighted James 3:13 NLT
If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.
May 3