LEB - James - 4

4:1  From where are conflicts and from where are quarrels among you? Is it not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

4:2  You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

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

4:4  Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

4:5  Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, “The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously”?

4:6  But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

4:7  Therefore subject yourselves to God. But 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 to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.

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

4:11  Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or 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 of the law.

4:12  There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

4:13  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit,”

4:14  you who do not know ⌞what will happen tomorrow⌟, ⌞what your life will be like⌟. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

4:15  Instead you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

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

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