Read James 4

World English Bible · 17 verses

1. ¹ Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Yet 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org