Worsley - James - 4

4:1  Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

4:2  Ye desire, and ye have not: ye are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight and contend; but ye have not, because ye ask not.

4:3  Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

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

4:5  Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy?

4:6  No, He giveth more grace: wherefore it is said, God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.

4:7  Submit yourselves therefore 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, O sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

4:9  Be grieved, and mourn, and weep: let your mirth be turned into mourning, and your joy to sadness.

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

4:11  Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

4:12  Now there is but one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou then that judgest another?

4:13  Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a city, and spend a year there, and trade and get gain;

4:14  (though ye know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? a vapor, which appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away:) whereas ye ought to say,

4:15  If the Lord will, and we should live, and do this or that:

4:16  but ye glory in your presumption: all such glorying is wicked.

4:17  To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.