Bible, King James Version
James
Jas.4
[1] From whence come wars and fightings among you? come
they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
[2] Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have,
and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye
ask not.
[3] Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye
may consume it upon your lusts.
[4] Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye 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.
[5] Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The
spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
[6] But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God
resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
[7] Submit yourselves therefore to God. 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 double
minded.
[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 lift you up.
[11] Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that
speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh
evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law,
thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
[12] There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to
destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
[13] Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will
go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell,
and get gain:
[14] Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For
what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a
little time, and then vanisheth away.
[15] For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall
live, and do this, or that.
[16] But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such
rejoicing is evil.
[17] Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin.
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