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title: James 4
slug: kjv-nt/james-4
createdAt: 2024-09-11T02:12:43.378Z
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**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.