Haweis - James - 4

4:1  FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

4:2  Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain your object; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not.

4:3  Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.

4:4  Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.

4:5  Think ye that the scripture saith without meaning, The spirit which dwelleth in you strongly urges to envy?

4:6  But he giveth mightier grace. Wherefore he saith, “God sets himself against the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly.”

4:7  Be in subjection then to God. Resist the devil, and he will fly from you.

4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

4:9  Be bitterly afflicted and lament, and let your tears run down; let your laughter be converted into mourning, and your joy into dejection.

4:10  Be humbled in the presence of God, so he will exalt you.

4:11  Traduce not one another, brethren. He that traduceth his brother, and judgeth his brother, traduceth the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but as judge.

4:12  There is one lawgiver, who can save or destroy: who art thou that judgest another man?

4:13  Come now, ye that talk, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a town, and do business there during one year, and traffic, and make great profits:

4:14  though ye know nothing of what shall be to-morrow. For what is your life? It is but a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and then vanishes away.

4:15  Instead of your saying, If the Lord pleases, and we are alive, then we will do this or that thing.

4:16  But now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked.

4:17  Therefore if a man knoweth how to act properly, and doth not, he is criminal.