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James Chapter 4 004:001 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 004:002 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. 004:003 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 004:004 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 004:005 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 004:006 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34} 004:007 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 004:008 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 004:009 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 004:010 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. 004:011 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.
004:012 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? 004:013 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." 004:014 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
004:015 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." 004:016 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. 004:017 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.