James 4 — GNV
4Verse 1From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?Verse 2Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.Verse 3Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.Verse 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, knowe ye not that the amitie of the world is the enimitie of God? Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himselfe the enemie of God.Verse 5Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?Verse 6But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.Verse 7Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you.Verse 8Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe neere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.Verse 9Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse.Verse 10Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.Verse 11Speake not euill one of another, brethren. He that speaketh euill of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh euill of ye Law, and condemneth the Lawe: and if thou condemnest the Lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the Lawe, but a iudge.Verse 12There is one Lawgiuer, which is able to saue, and to destroy. Who art thou that iudgest another man?Verse 13Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,Verse 14(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)Verse 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.Verse 16But now ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.Verse 17Therefore, to him that knoweth how to doe well, and doeth it not, to him it is sinne.