James 4
1 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
2 You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.
ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;
3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
5 Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
6 But he gives more grace. Why he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, 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.
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?
one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?
13 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'
14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
15 For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
16 But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.
