James 4

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1	What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?	From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?	Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?	Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
2	You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.	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.	You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.	Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
3	And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.	Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.	You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.	Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
4	You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.	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.	You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.	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 do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?	Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?	Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?	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 gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”	But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.	But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”	But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
7	Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.	Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.	Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.	Be subject therefore unto God; but 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 double-minded.	Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.	Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.	Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
9	Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.	Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.	Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.	Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10	Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
11	Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.	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.	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.	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	There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?	There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?	Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?	One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
13	Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”	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:	Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”	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	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.	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.	Yet 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.	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	Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”	For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.	For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”	For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
16	As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.	But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.	But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.	But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
17	Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.	Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.	To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.	To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.