[James 4]

 

             ^4:1 From where are the wars and quarrels among you^° coming? Is it not from here, from your^° own sensual-delights, the ones 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 yourselves. ^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 should will 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 has 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 the 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. The one speaking against a brother and the one judging his brother, is speaking against 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, the one able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judges the other?

 

             ^4:13 Proceed on now, the ones saying, Today and the next-day, we might travel into this city and might spend one year there and should be a merchant and should make^* a gain. ^4:14 You^° do not know the things of the next-day, 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 the thing you spoke, you^° ought to 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^° self-importances. All such boasting is evil. ^4:17 Therefore, you knowing to do^* good and not doing^* it, it is sin to him.