19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen(A) you out of it, the world hates you.

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16 They are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.(A)

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Do not be conformed(A) to this age,(B) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,(C) so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will(D) of God.

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27 Pure and undefiled religion before our[a] God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows(A) in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:27 Or before the

Adulteresses![a][b] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 Other mss read Adulterers and adulteresses
  2. James 4:4 Or Unfaithful people!

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