ABP - James - 4

4:1  From where come wars and fights among you? Is it not from here, from your pleasures soldiering in your members?

4:2  You desire and do not have; you murder and are jealous, and are not able to succeed; you do combat and wage war; you have not because [2do not 3ask 1you].

4:3  You ask, and do not receive, because wickedly you ask, that [2for 3your own pleasures 1you should spend].

4:4  Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world [2hatred 3of God 1is]? Who ever therefore should want to be a friend of the world, [2as enemy 3of God 1stands].

4:5  Or do you think that uselessly the scripture says, [8with 9envy 7longs after 1The 2spirit 3which 4dwells 5in 6us]?

4:6  [3greater 1But 2he gives] favor. Therefore he says, The lord [2the proud 1resists], but to the humble he gives favor.

4:7  Be submitted then to God! Oppose the devil, and he will flee from you!

4:8  Approach to God, and he will approach unto you! Cleanse your hands, O sinners! and purify your hearts, O double-minded!

4:9  Languish and mourn and weep! [2your laughter 4into 5mourning 1Let 3be converted], and your joy into sadness!

4:10  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you!

4:11  Do not speak ill of one another, brethren! The one speaking ill of a brother, and judging his brother, speaks ill of the law, and judges the law. But if [2the law 1you judge], you are not a doer of law, but a judge.

4:12  There is one lawgiver, the one being able to deliver and to destroy. But you, and who are you who judges the other?

4:13  Come now, O ones saying, Today and tomorrow we should go to thus the city, and we should spend there [2year 1one], and should trade, and should make gain,

4:14  you who do not know the thing of tomorrow. For what is your life? [3a vapor 1For 2it shall be], [2for 3a little 1appearing], and thereupon disappearing.

4:15  Instead your saying should be, If the Lord should will, and we should live, then we should do this or that.

4:16  But now you boast in your ostentatiousness; all [2boasting 1such] is wicked.

4:17  Knowing then [2good 1to do] and not doing, [2sin 3to him 1it is].