Quote (DCEVO @ Mar 13 2022 03:18am)
James 4 KJV to start off./B]
Warning against Pride
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Drawing Near to God
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Do Not Boast about Tomorrow
13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
True, pride is very dangerous because it conceives sin, however in revelations these temptations are unavoidable.
However, what do you think the net or the web is? Do you remember it was a military assignment and what kind of fornication(s) it housed originally and still to this day?
If you're online your job as a true christian is to flood the web w/ the truth especially because the source of that web has flooded the earth with lies.
If you're online or actively engaging the virtual space that is also hell, it's because they used temptation to conceive sin in you and though as a christian it is forgiven, it still springs forth the inevitable consequences of sin. This is why everyone is living in the end times or revelations.
However a way to try & remedy this is to repay evil w/ good or lies w/ truth. Be kind to yourself, others(actual humans), animals in a truly loving or genuine way.
Now as a true christian, you keep saying something truthful through the spirit of truth which is also living instead of being bound to the book which is dead & binding.
TLDR: keep speaking the truth from the holy spirit of truth and be less worried about biblical quoting.