James 4
1 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war 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 have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask 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 ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
4 Ye 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.
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 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [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 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Speak 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.
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 lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?
13 Go to now, ye 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, 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 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then 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, we shall live, and do 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 rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.
He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.
