James - Chapter 4 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Whence {cf15i come} wars and whence {cf15i come} fightings among you? {cf15i come they} not hence, {cf15i even} of your pleasures that war in your members?
  • 2. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
  • 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend {cf15i it} in your pleasures.
  • 4. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
  • 5. Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
  • 6. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore {cf15i the scripture} saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
  • 7. Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
  • 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
  • 9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
  • 10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
  • 11. Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
  • 12. One {cf15i only} is the lawgiver and judge, {cf15i even} he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
  • 13. Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:
  • 14. whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • 15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
  • 16. But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
  • 17. To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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