James 4
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1Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
2You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.2You 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.
3You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not 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.4You 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.
5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
6But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or 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.
12There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
14whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.14You 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.
15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
16But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.The Berean Bible (Berean Study Bible (BSB) © 2016, 2018 by Bible Hub and Berean.Bible. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved.
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