James 4
4
1Where do the fights and quarrels you're having come from? Aren't they due to the sensual passions that are in conflict within you? 2You burn with desire, but don't get what you want. You kill for what you lust after, but don't get what you're looking for. You argue and you fight, but you don't get anything, because you don't pray for it. 3You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures. 4You adulterous people! Don't you realize that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Those who want to be friends of the world make themselves enemies of God.
5Do you think Scripture doesn't mean what it says: that the spirit that he put in us is very jealous?#4:5. Or “God has placed a spirit in us that is filled with strong desires.” 6But God gives us even more grace, as Scripture says: “God is against those who are arrogant, but gives grace to those who are humble.”#4:6. Quoting Proverbs 3:34. 7So place yourself under God's direction. Confront the devil, and he will run away from you. 8Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties. 9Show some remorse, cry and weep! Turn your laughter into mourning, and your joy to sadness. 10Be humble before the Lord and he will lift you up.
11Friends, don't speak badly of one another. Anyone who criticizes a fellow-believer and condemns#4:11. Or “judges.” them, criticizes and condemns the law. If you condemn the law you're not someone who keeps the law, because you're sitting in judgment of it. 12There's only one lawgiver and judge—the one who can either save or destroy you—so who are you to judge your neighbor?
13Come on now!—you people who say, “Either today or tomorrow we'll go to such-and-such a city, spend a year in business there, and make a profit.” 14You have no idea what will happen tomorrow! What's your life like? It's just a mist that appears for a little while, and then is gone. 15What you should say is, “If it's the Lord's will, we'll live like this and plan to do that.” 16But right now you're caught up in your vain ideas. All this boasting is evil. 17For it is a sin if you know to do what's right but don't do it.
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James 4
4
Friendship with the World
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2Ye 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. 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4Ye 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. 5Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth#4.5 dwelleth. Some early manuscripts have he made to dwell. in us lusteth to envy? 6#Prov 3.34. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith,
God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble.
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Judging a Brother
11Speak 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. 12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Boast Not of Tomorrow
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Prov 27.1. Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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King James Version 1611, spelling, punctuation and text formatting modernized by ABS in 1962; typesetting © 2010 American Bible Society.