James 4

1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

2 You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit who dwells in us yearns with envy?

6 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

7 Submit yourselves, then, 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 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother and judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

12 There is only one Lawgiver, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge the other?

13 Come now, you who say, “Today and tomorrow let us go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”

14 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.

15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, let us live and do this or that.”

16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

1 ¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

11 ¶ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

1 Whence cometh strife and war among you? Cometh it not from your lusts, which strive in your members?

2 Ye are covetous, and gain not thereby: ye hate, and envy, and gain not thereby: ye contend, and war. Ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not; because ye ask evil, that is, to consume it with your lusts.

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? He who wants to be the friend of the world will be the enemy of God.

5 Or do ye suppose that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in you lusteth against hatred?

6 And giveth abundant grace: for the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

7 Therefore be subject to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Draw near to God, and He draws near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts chaste, you fickle ones!

9 Be ye wretched, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter turn to weeping, and your joy to sadness.

10 Humble yourselves before God, and He will exalt you.

11 Speak not evil one to another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver who can save and condemn. Who are you to judge another?

13 Now therefore, ye that say, To day or tomorrow we will go into that city, or that city, and lie there a year, and work, and win,

14 Ye know not what tomorrow shall be. For what is your life? It is a vapour that lasteth for a little season, and after that it vanisheth away.

15 For which ye ought to say: If the LORD will, and we live, we will do this or that.

16 But now ye glory in your pride. All such glory is evil.

17 For he that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.