EMTV - James - 4

4:1  From where come wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

4:2  You lust and you do not have. You murder and are jealous and you cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask.

4:3  You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend it in gratifying your lusts.

4:4  Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.

4:5  Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?

4:6  But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."

4:7  Therefore submit 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  Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.

4:10  Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

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

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

4:13  Come now, you who say, "Today and tomorrow let us travel to this city, and let us spend a year there, and let us trade and make a profit"—

4:14  you who do not know what will happen tomorrow! For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, but then also disappears.

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

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

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