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James 1:7
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“Purely human merits are evil, and God does not crown them. Any good merit is a gift of God.”
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7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
— James 1:7 —
8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: