The Better Report

In-Depth Event Report

Warnings against Worldliness

This event serves as a major narrative anchor, appearing across the Biblical archive as a defining moment in history.

The Original Account

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James 4:1 - 5:6
Warnings against Worldliness

A look at why fighting for what we want is failing, and how shifting our focus from pride to genuine connection with the Divine is the only way forward.

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References

2:1-25
Moses in Egypt
8:1-20
God has Provided All
28:1-10
David Commissions Solomon
7:11-22
The LORD’s Response to Solomon
15:1-19
Asa’s Reforms
25:1-28
Amaziah
7:1-21
Life Seems Futile
14:1-22
Job Laments the Finality of Death
20:1-29
Destruction Awaits the Wicked
22:1-30
Can a Man Be of Use to God?
24:1-25
Judgment for the Wicked
27:1-28:28
Job’s First Monologue
10:1-18
Psalm 10: The Perils of the Pilgrim
12:1-8
Psalm 12: The Godly Are No More
24:1-10
Psalm 24: The Earth Is the LORD’s
37:1-40
Psalm 37: Delight Yourself in the LORD
39:1-13
Psalm 39: I Will Watch My Ways
66:1-20
Psalm 66: Make a Joyful Noise
73:1-28
Psalm 73: Surely God Is Good to Israel
90:1-17
Psalm 90: From Everlasting to Everlasting
121:1-8
Psalm 121: I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills
138:1-8
Psalm 138: A Thankful Heart
145:1-21
Psalm 145: I Will Exalt You, My God and King
1:8-33
Appeals and Warnings
3:13-35
The Blessings of Wisdom
10:1-32
The Wise Son
22:1-16
A Good Name
3:1-8
To Everything There Is a Season
6:1-12
The Futility of Life
2:6-3:26
Judgement on Jerusalem and Judah
33:1-24
Woe to Assyria
55:1-8
Invitation to the Needy
4:5-31
Judgment is Coming (Part 1)
3:37-66
God’s Justice
4:1-37
Nebuchadnezzar’s Pride
7:1-16
Ephraim’s Iniquity
2:1-32
A Future Day of the LORD
6:1-7
Woe to Those at Ease in Zion
7:1-8:23
Fasting and Restoration
4:1-11
The Temptation of Jesus
6:1-34
The Lord Sees What is Done in Secret
10:1-42
The Commissioning of the Twelve
7:14-23
What Defiles a Man
8:27-38
At Caesarea Philippi
10:17-31
The Rich Young Man
1:46-56
Mary’s Song
4:1-13
The Temptation of Jesus
6:17-49
The Sermon on the Plain
12:13-21
The Parable of the Rich Fool
14:7-14
The Parable of the Guests
16:1-13
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
18:9-17
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector & Jesus Blesses the Children
13:1-17
Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet
3:11-26
Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade
6:1-14
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
7:1-25
Function of the Law
12:1-13:14
Love and Forgiveness
14:1-15:13
Grace in Jew and Gentile Relationship
7:1-40
The Marriage Covenant
6:11-7:16
Paul’s Exhortation
1:10-24
Authentication of the Messenger
3:1-4:13
Jesus is Above Moses
1:19-27
Hearing and Doing
2:1-13
A Warning against Favoritism
1:13-25
A Call to Holiness & The Enduring Word
2:1-12
The Living Stone and Chosen People
5:5-9
Cast Your Cares on Him
2:1-22
Deliverance from False Prophets
5:1-21
The Fourth Test of Fellowship