Godbey - James - 4

4:1  Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

4:2  You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask:

4:3  you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

4:4  O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.

4:5  Whether do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit who dwells in us fights against envy?

4:6  and he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

4:7  Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you:

4:8  draw nigh unto God, and he draws nigh unto you. Purify your hands, ye sinners; and cleanse your hearts, ye double-minded.

4:9  Weep, and mourn, lament: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.

4:10  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will raise you up.

4:11  Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

4:12  There is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you, the one judging your neighbor.

4:13  Come now, ye who are saying, To-day or to-morrow we will go into that city, and abide there a year, and trade and accumulate:

4:14  whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away;

4:15  on the contrary you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will indeed do this, or that.

4:16  But you are now boasting in your arrogances: all such boasting is wicked.

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