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James 4 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
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Is it not from the lusts which war in your members? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>You lust and you do not possess; you murder and envy and you have no power. You fight and you do battle and you have not because you ask not. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>You ask and you do not receive, because you ask wickedly so that your lusts may be fed. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Adulterers! Do you not know that the love of this world is hatred toward God? Therefore whoever chooses to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>And perhaps you think the Scripture says in vain, “The spirit that dwells within us lusts with jealousy.” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>But our Lord gives us more grace; therefore, he said, “God humbles the proud and he gives grace to the humble.”<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Submit therefore to God and stand against Satan, and he will flee from you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Purify your hands, you sinners; sanctify your hearts, doubting souls. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Be humble and make lamentation and let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to grief. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Be humble before THE LORD JEHOVAH, and he will exalt you.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not speak against each other, my brethren, for he who speaks against his brother or judges his brother speaks against The Written Law, and judges The Written Law; if you judge The Written Law, you are not a doer of the law, but its judge. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>One is he who lays down The Written Law and judgment, who is able to give life and to destroy. Who are you who are judging your neighbor?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>But what shall we say about those who say: “Today or tomorrow we shall go to a city, where we shall also work one year; there we shall earn wages and make profits?” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And they do not know what tomorrow is. What are our lives except a vapor that appears for a little while and vanishes and passes away? <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore, they should say, “If THE LORD JEHOVAH pleases, and we live, we shall do this or that.” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>They boast in their pride. All such boasting is evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/james/4-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Whoever knows the good and does not do it, to him it is sin. <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<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>