AFV2020 - James - 4

4:1  What is the cause of quarrels and fightings among you? Is it not mainly from your own lusts that are warring within your members?

4:2  You lust, and have not; you kill, and are jealous, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel, but still you do not have, because you do not ask.

4:3  Then you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask with evil motives, that you may consume it on your own lusts.

4:4  You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

4:5  Or do you think that the scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us lusts with envy"?

4:6  But He gives greater grace. This is the reason it says, "God sets Himself against the proud, but He gives grace to the humble."

4:7  Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

4:8  Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double- minded!

4:9  Be grieved and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into grieving, and your joy into mourning.

4:10  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

4:11  Brethren, do not talk against one another. The one who talks against a brother, and judges his brother, is speaking against the law, and is judging the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law; rather, you are a judge.

4:12  But there is only one Lawgiver, Who has power to save and to destroy. Who are you that you presume to judge another?

4:13  Now listen, those of you who say, "Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city, and we will spend a year, and we will conduct business and make a profit."

4:14  You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little while, and then disappears.

4:15  Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live, and we will do this or that."

4:16  But now you boast in your own arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

4:17  Therefore, if anyone knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.