The Morning Devotional: James 4:6-10
The Morning Devotional: James 4:6-10

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 30
December 17, 2025

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore 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 purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
(Jameas 4:6-10, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:4-5
The Morning Devotional: James 4:4-5

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 29
December 16, 2025 

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
(James 4:4-5, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:1-3
The Morning Devotional: James 4:1-3

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 28
December 15, 2025

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
(James 4:1-3, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 3:13-16
The Morning Devotional: James 3:13-16

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 26
December 11, 2025

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
(James 3:13-16, ESV)

Season 10 | Edition 26
December 11, 2025

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The Morning Devotional: James 6b-12
The Morning Devotional: James 6b-12

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 25
December 10, 2025

The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
(James 3:6b-12, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 3:2-6a
The Morning Devotional: James 3:2-6a

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 24
December 9, 2025

2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness.
(James 3:2-6a, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 2:20-26
The Morning Devotional: James 2:20-26

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 22
November 19, 2025

20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
(James 2:20-26, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 2:14-17
The Morning Devotional: James 2:14-17

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 20
November 18, 2025

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

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