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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Friendship with the World</h3><p class="par"><span class="v59_4_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.1" class="v59_4_1">1</span>Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you. </span><span class="v59_4_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.2" class="v59_4_2">2</span>You want things, but you cannot have them, so you are ready to kill; you strongly desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. </span><span class="v59_4_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.3" class="v59_4_3">3</span>And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures. </span><span class="v59_4_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.4" class="v59_4_4">4</span>Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy. </span><span class="v59_4_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.5" class="v59_4_5">5</span>Don't think that there is no truth in the scripture that says, “The spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce desires.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.4.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v59_4_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.6" class="v59_4_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.4.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But the grace that God gives is even stronger. As the scripture says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v59_4_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.7" class="v59_4_7">7</span>So then, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you. </span><span class="v59_4_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.8" class="v59_4_8">8</span>Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites! </span><span class="v59_4_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.9" class="v59_4_9">9</span>Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom! </span><span class="v59_4_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.10" class="v59_4_10">10</span>Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.</span></p><h3 class="s">Warning against Judging One Another</h3><p class="par"><span class="v59_4_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.11" class="v59_4_11">11</span>Do not criticize one another, my friends. If you criticize or judge another Christian, you criticize and judge the Law. If you judge the Law, then you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it. </span><span class="v59_4_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.12" class="v59_4_12">12</span>God is the only lawgiver and judge. He alone can save and destroy. Who do you think you are, to judge someone else?</span></p><h3 class="s">Warning against Boasting</h3><p class="par"><span class="v59_4_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.13" class="v59_4_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.4.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.4.13!x.2" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Now listen to me, you that say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to a certain city, where we will stay a year and go into business and make a lot of money.” </span><span class="v59_4_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.14" class="v59_4_14">14</span>You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears. </span><span class="v59_4_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.15" class="v59_4_15">15</span>What you should say is this: “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” </span><span class="v59_4_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.16" class="v59_4_16">16</span>But now you are proud, and you boast; all such boasting is wrong.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v59_4_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.4.17" class="v59_4_17">17</span>So then, if we do not do the good we know we should do, we are guilty of sin.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The spirit … fierce desires; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">God yearns jealously over the spirit that he placed in us.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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