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[Is it] not from here, out of your passions warring in your members? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You desire, and do not have, [so] you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, [so] you fight and war; and you do not have, because of your not asking; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Adulterers and adulteresses! Have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, may intend to be a friend of the world, he is designated [as] an enemy of God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”<p> <A name="8"></a><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; <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 hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled! <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not speak against one another, brothers; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, speaks against law, and judges law, and if you judge law, you are not a doer of law but a judge. <A name="13"></a><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; you—who are you that judges the other?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Go, now, you who are saying, “Today and tomorrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain,” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>but now you 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 [it], it is sin to him.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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