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Jam 4:1 |
From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? |
  
  
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Jam 4:2 |
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. |
  
  
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Jam 4:3 |
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. |
  
  
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Jam 4:4 |
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. |
  
  
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Jam 4:5 |
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? |
  
  
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Jam 4:6 |
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. |
  
  
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Jam 4:7 |
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. |
  
  
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Jam 4:8 |
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded. |
  
  
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Jam 4:9 |
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. |
  
  
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Jam 4:10 |
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. |
  
  
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Jam 4:11 |
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. |
  
  
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Jam 4:12 |
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? |