James 4
1 From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?
From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?
2 Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.
Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask.
3 Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, knowe ye not that the amitie of the world is the enimitie of God? Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himselfe the enemie of God.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?
Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?
6 But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.
7 Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you.
Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe neere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.
Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.
9 Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse.
Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.
10 Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.
Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Speake not euill one of another, brethren. He that speaketh euill of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh euill of ye Law, and condemneth the Lawe: and if thou condemnest the Lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the Lawe, but a iudge.
Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.
12 There is one Lawgiuer, which is able to saue, and to destroy. Who art thou that iudgest another man?
There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?
13 Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,
Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain-
14 (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away-
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.
in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
16 But now ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 Therefore, to him that knoweth how to doe well, and doeth it not, to him it is sinne.
He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.
