James Chapter 4 Back Next{4:1} Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
{4:2} You
lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
{4:3} You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
{4:4} You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is
enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
{4:5} Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
{4:6} But he gives more
grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."[
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{4:7} Be subject therefore to God. But resist the
devil, and he will flee from you.
{4:8} Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your
hearts, you double-minded.
{4:9} Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
{4:10} Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
{4:11} Don't speak against one another,
brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the
law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
{4:12} Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
{4:13} Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
{4:14} Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
{4:15} For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
{4:16} But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
{4:17} To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
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