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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal Translation</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>Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us? <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace 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>Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There is one legislator, able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Do Not Boast about Tomorrow<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../proverbs/27.htm">Proverbs 27:1</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit: <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.) <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, and should do this, or that. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And now ye boast in your arrogance: all such boasting is evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore to him knowing to do good, and not doing, to him it is sin.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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