James 4

1 Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions 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 You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

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 You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an 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 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?

Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives 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 Be subject therefore to God. But 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 near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

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 will exalt you.

Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

11 Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against 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 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 Only one is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?

13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

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 you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes 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 you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both 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 you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.