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Memorize James 4 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 12/15/2006 12:02:43 PM
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Quipper
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Games come in all shapes and sizes in this forum; some are kind of serious and some are silly. This one will help us benefit spiritually. The idea of this thread is to make Scripture memory fun, and to provide some accountability along the way! The book of James is very practical, and having it memorized word for word is amazingly beneficial (I once memorized all 5 chapters, but I need a lot of review!).
To play along, simply read the whole text below before posting (it's not very long!). You can just post a smiley to indicate that you've read the entire passage on any given day—no cheating! If you do it more than once in a day, you may post more than once. One post per reading. It just takes me about 120 seconds to read it through.
The longer-term goal is to completely memorize this chapter (and apply it, of course). If you read this chapter frequently, preferably out loud, you will increasingly be able to look away while you're ‘reading’ part of it from memory. Eventually, you'll be able to say the whole thing without any mistakes! 
Feel free to post comments as well as smileys, indicating what progress you've made in your memorization!  This is a game, though, and not a place to discuss or debate the chapter's content or anything else. Have fun!
Here are quick links to the earlier threads in this series—visit them all!
Memorize James 1 Together!
Memorize James 2 Together!
Memorize James 3 Together!
James 4:
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
(verses 4-6) You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
(verse 17) Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.
GREAT JOB!
KEEP IT UP! 
Author: God, through James (NIV text used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House).
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RE: Memorize James 4 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 1/9/2007 1:25:28 PM
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RE: Memorize James 4 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 2/14/2007 4:24:38 PM
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