13 No(A) household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate(B) one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”

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13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”(A)

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10 For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God?(A) Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

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10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?(A) If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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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!

You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.