James 4
1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
From whence are there among you wars and strifes? Is it not from the lusts which war in your members?
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.
You desire, and have not; you kill and are emulous, yet it cometh not into your hands; you strive and make wars, and nothing 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.
you ask and receive not, because you ask wickedly, as that you may cherish your lusts.
4 You 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.
Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is enmity with Aloha? He, therefore, who willeth to be the friend of this world, hath become the enemy of Aloha.
5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
Or do you vainly think that the scripture saith, that In emulation desireth the Spirit who dwelleth in us?
6 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
But more excellent grace hath our Lord given unto us. Wherefore he saith, Aloha humbleth the proud, and to the humble he giveth grace.
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
BE subject, therefore, unto Aloha; withstand Satana, 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.
and draw nigh unto Aloha, and he will be nigh you. Purify your hands, sinners, and sanctify your hearts, divided of soul.
9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Be humbled and sorrowful, and let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into anxiety.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Be humbled before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Brothers, 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.
Speak not against one another, my brethren; for he who speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if the law thou judgest, thou art not a doer of the law, but the judge of it.
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
For one is the appointer of the law and the Judge, who can save and destroy. But thou, who art thou, who judgest thy neighbour?
13 Come 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.”
But what shall we say of them who say, To-day or tomorrow we will go to this city, or that, and work there one year, and negotiate, and make gain?
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.
and they know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is our life, but a vapour which for a little while is seen, and vanisheth and endeth?
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
For instead they should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will do this or that.
16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
They glory in their pride. All glorying such as this is from the Evil.
17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
And he who knoweth the good and doeth it not, sin is to him.
