Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁶ But it offers more grace, and therefore says, “God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

⁷ Submit yourselves 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 purge your hearts, you double-minded.

⁹ Suffer afflictions and sorrow, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.

¹⁰ Cast yourselves down before the Lord, and He will lift you up.

¹¹ Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of his brother, or the one who condemns his brother, speaks evil of the Law, and condemns the Law. And if you condemn the Law, you are not an observer of the Law, but a judge.

¹² There is one Lawgiver, Who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?