The Letter from James, Chapter 4
{4:1} Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they
come from your pleasures that war in your members? {4:2} You lust, and
don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war.
You don't have, because you don't ask. {4:3} You ask, and don't
receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it
for your pleasures. {4:4} You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you
know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever
therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of
God. {4:5} Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The
Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? {4:6} But he gives more
grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to
the humble." {4:7} Be subject therefore to God. But 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, you sinners; and purify your hearts,
you double-minded. {4:9} Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be
turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. {4:10} Humble yourselves in
the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
{4:11} Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks
against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and
judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the
law, but a judge. {4:12} Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save
and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
{4:13} Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this
city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." {4:14}
Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what
is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and
then vanishes away. {4:15} For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills,
we will both live, and do this or that." {4:16} But now you glory in
your boasting. All such boasting is evil. {4:17} To him therefore who
knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
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