James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
From whence are there among you wars and strifes? Is it not from the lusts which war in your members?
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t 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 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
you ask and receive not, because you ask wickedly, as that you may cherish your lusts.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes 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 that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Or do you vainly think that the scripture saith, that In emulation desireth the Spirit who dwelleth in us?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists 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 Be subject therefore 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. 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 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned 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 in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Be humbled before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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 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 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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 let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, 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 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both 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 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
They glory in their pride. All glorying such as this is from the Evil.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
And he who knoweth the good and doeth it not, sin is to him.
