Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,(A) and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.(B) Wash your hands,(C) you sinners, and purify your hearts,(D) you double-minded.(E)

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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

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Do not be stiff-necked,(A) as your ancestors were; submit to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger(B) will turn away from you.

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Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

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10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;(A)
    I will be exalted(B) among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”

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10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

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Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!(A)
    So great is your power
    that your enemies cringe(B) before you.

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Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

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18 The Lord is near(A) to all who call on him,(B)
    to all who call on him in truth.

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18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

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Israel Unrepentant

“Come, let us return(A) to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces(B)
    but he will heal us;(C)
he has injured us
    but he will bind up our wounds.(D)
After two days he will revive us;(E)
    on the third day(F) he will restore(G) us,
    that we may live in his presence.

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Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

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29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,(A) for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.(B)

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29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

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Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.(A)

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For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

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11 It is written:

“‘As surely as I live,’(A) says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
    every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[a](B)

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Notas al pie

  1. Romans 14:11 Isaiah 45:23

11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

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Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits(A) and live!(B)

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Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt,(A) because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded(B) and unstable(C) in all they do.

Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.(D) 10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.(E) 11 For the sun rises with scorching heat(F) and withers(G) the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed.(H) In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial(I) because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life(J) that the Lord has promised to those who love him.(K)

13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(L) evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(M) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(N)

16 Don’t be deceived,(O) my dear brothers and sisters.(P) 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above,(Q) coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,(R) who does not change(S) like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth(T) through the word of truth,(U) that we might be a kind of firstfruits(V) of all he created.

Listening and Doing

19 My dear brothers and sisters,(W) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak(X) and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger(Y) does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of(Z) all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you,(AA) which can save you.

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.(AB) 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,(AC) and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.(AD)

26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues(AE) deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after(AF) orphans and widows(AG) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.(AH)

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But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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