Anderson - James - 4

4:1  Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

4:2  You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not.

4:3  You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

4:4  Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.

4:5  Do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit that dwells in us incline to envy? No.

4:6  But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says: God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.

4:7  Submit yourselves, therefore, 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 men.

4:9  Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to sorrow.

4:10  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

4:11  Do not speak evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

4:12  There is one law-giver that is able to save, and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

4:13  Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain;

4:14  and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away?

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

4:16  But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.

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