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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>James 4 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/james/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/james/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > James 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../james/3.htm" title="James 3">◄</a> James 4 <a href="../james/5.htm" title="James 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/james/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Stop Fighting with Each Other</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don’t they? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You want something but do not get it, so you commit murder. You covet something but cannot obtain it, so you quarrel and fight. You do not get things because you do not ask for them! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason—for your own pleasure.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You adulterers! Don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:5 Lit. he">a</a></span> caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:5 Cf. Exod 20:5; Num 11:29">b</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But he gives all the more grace. And so he says,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“God opposes the arrogant</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">but gives grace to the humble.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:6 Cf. Prov 3:34 (LXX)">c</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Humble yourselves in the Lord’s presence, and he will exalt you.</p> <p class="heading">Do Not Criticize Each Other</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There is only one Lawgiver and Judge—the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor?</p> <p class="heading">Do Not Boast about Future Plans</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Instead you should say, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 4:5 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 4:5 Cf. Exod 20:5; Num 11:29<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 4:6 Cf. 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