English Bible
James 4
Big screen- 1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not behind, even of your lusts that war in your members?
- 2All of you lust, and have not: all of you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: all of you fight and war, yet all of you have not, because all of you ask not.
- 3All of you ask, and receive not, because all of you ask amiss, that all of you may consume it upon your lusts.
- 4All of you adulterers and adulteresses, know all of you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- 5Do all of you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
- 6But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.
- 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, all of you sinners; and purify your hearts, all of you double minded.
- 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
- 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
- 11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and 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.
- 12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?
- 13Go to now, all of you that say, To day or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
- 14Whereas all of you know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
- 15For that all of you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
- 16But now all of you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
- 17Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.