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James - Chapter 4

	Jam 4:1	Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
	Jam 4:2	You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet [fn] you do not have because you do not ask.
	Jam 4:3	You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
	Jam 4:4	Adulterers and [fn] adulteresses! Do you not 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.
	Jam 4:5	Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?
	Jam 4:6	But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." [fn]
	Jam 4:7	Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
	Jam 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.
	Jam 4:9	Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and [your] joy to gloom.
	Jam 4:10	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
	Jam 4:11	Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a 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.
	Jam 4:12	There is one Lawgiver, [fn] who is able to save and to destroy. Who [fn] are you to judge another? [fn]
	Jam 4:13	Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will [fn] go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit";
	Jam 4:14	whereas you do not know what [will happen] tomorrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
	Jam 4:15	Instead you [ought] to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."
	Jam 4:16	But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
	Jam 4:17	Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin.

NKJV Footnotes:

(4:2) NU-Text and M-Text omit Yet.
(4:4) NU-Text omits Adulterers and.
(4:6) Proverbs 3:34
(4:12) NU-Text adds and Judge.
(4:12) NU-Text and M-Text read But who.
(4:12) NU-Text reads a neighbor.
(4:13) M-Text reads let us.

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