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not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, ‘To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, ‘God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?’</p> <p class="hdg">Drawing Near to God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?</p> <p class="hdg">Do Not Boast about Tomorrow</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Go, now, ye who are saying, ‘To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>instead of your saying, ‘If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil; <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/james/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>