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James 4

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1 What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
2 You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us"?
5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ?
6 But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
12 There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbor?
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain";
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
14 whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that."
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
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