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MODERN LITERAL VERSION 2019 VERSION

4:1 From where are the wars and quarrels among you* coming from? Is it not from here, from your* own sensual-delights which are warring in your* members?

4:2 You* lust and do not have; you* murder and are jealous and are not able to obtain; you* quarrel and make war; you* do not have, because you* do not ask for yourself.

4:3 You* ask and do not receive, because you* ask evilly, in order that you* may spend it in your* sensual-delights.



4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses, do you* not know that the friendship of the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wills to be a friend of the world is designated as an enemy of God.

4:5 Or are you* thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness? Does the Spirit who dwelt in us long to envy?

4:6 But he is giving greater grace. Hence the Scripture says, 'God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.' {Prov 3:34}



4:7 Therefore, be* subject to God and stand* against the devil, and he will be fleeing away from you*.

4:8 Draw* near to God and he will be drawing near to you*. Cleanse* your * hands sinners and purify* your * hearts you * indecisive!

4:9 Be* miserable and mourn* and weep*. Let your* laughter be turned to mourning and your* joy be turned to gloom.

4:10 Humble* yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will be exalting you*.



4:11 Brethren do* not speak against one another. He who is speaking against a brother and is judging his brother, is speaking against the law and is judging the law. Now if you are judging the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

4:12 There is the one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judges the other?



4:13 Proceed on now, you* who are saying, Today and the next-day, we should travel into this city and should spend one year there and be a merchant and make* a gain.

4:14 You* do not know what the next-day will bring, for* what is your* life? For* it will be a vapor, which appears for a small time but also thereafter disappears.

4:15 Instead of that, you* should say, If the Lord wills, and we should also live, then we might do* this or that.

4:16 But now you* boast in your* various self-importances. All such boasting is evil.

4:17 Therefore knowing to do * good and not doing* it, to him, it is sin.