James 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?WEB — James 4:1

2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. Yet you don't have, because you don't ask.WEB — James 4:2

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.WEB — James 4:3

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.WEB — James 4:4

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?WEB — James 4:5

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”WEB — James 4:6

7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.WEB — James 4:7

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.WEB — James 4:8

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.WEB — James 4:9

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.WEB — James 4:10

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.WEB — James 4:11

12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?WEB — James 4:12

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain.”WEB — James 4:13

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.WEB — James 4:14

15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”WEB — James 4:15

16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.WEB — James 4:16

17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.WEB — James 4:17