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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"><title>James 4 Mace New Testament</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Mace</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/james/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Warning against Pride<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven, he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?" <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you, wherefore 'tis said, "God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble."<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Drawing Near to God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>humble your selves before the Lord, and he will raise you up.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Don't, my brethren, treat one another with detraction, he that reflects upon his brother, and censures his brother, reflects upon the law, and censures the law: if you censure the law, instead of obeying it, you set up for a judge. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>there is but one legislator, and judge, he that has the power of life and death: who art thou, to pass sentence upon another?<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Do Not Boast about Tomorrow<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As for you, who affirm, "to-day, or, to-morrow we will go to such a city, we will stay there a whole year, there we will traffic, and find our account." <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>how do you know, what will happen to-morrow? for, "what is your life?" a vapour that just appears, and then vanishes. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>your language ought to be this, "if the Lord pleases to give us life, we shall do this, or that." <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>you triumph in your vain projects, but your presumption is vicious. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>he then that knows what is virtuous, and does not practise it, is a criminal.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../james/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="James 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="James 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../james/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="James 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="James 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>