LO - James - 4

4:1  Whence wars and fightings among you? Do they not come hence, even from your lusts, which war in your members?

4:2  You strongly desire, and have not; you kill, and are zealous, and can not obtain. You fight and war, but have not, because you ask not.

4:3  You ask, and do not receive, because you ask wickedly, that you may spend upon your lusts.

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

4:5  Do you think that the scripture speaks in vain? And does the spirit, who dwells in us, strongly incline to envy?

4:6  But he gives greater favor. For it says, "God resists the proud, but gives favor to the humble."

4:7  Therefore, be subject to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you men of two minds.

4:9  Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep; and let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sadness.

4:10  Be humble in the presence of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

4:11  He who speaks against his brother, and condemns his brother, speaks against the law, and condemns the law. But if you condemn 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. Who are you, that condemn another?

4:13  Come, now, you who say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go to such a city, and will abide there one year, and traffic in merchandise, and get gain;

4:14  who do not know what shall be to-morrow. For what is your life? It is, indeed, a smoke, which appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.

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

4:16  But now you boast in your proud speeches: all such boasting is evil.

4:17  Wherefore, to him who know how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.