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James 4 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?[fn]

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You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war.[fn] You do not have because you do not ask.

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You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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You adulterous people![fn] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.

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Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?[fn]

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But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says:

God resists the proud,

but gives grace to the humble.

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Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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Don’t criticize one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer[fn] defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

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There is one lawgiver and judge[fn] who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Our Will and God’s Will

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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

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Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring — what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

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Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

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But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

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So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.

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CSB Footnotes

(4:1)

Or war in your members

(4:2)

Or You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war.

(4:4)

Lit Adulteresses

(4:5)

Or Scripture says: He jealously yearns for the spirit he made to live in us?, or Scripture says: The Spirit he made to dwell in us longs jealously?

(4:11)

Or his brother or sister

(4:12)

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