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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 NIV</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><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="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/james/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Submit Yourselves to God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You adulterous people, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.">a</a></sup></span> don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously">b</a></sup></span> ? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“God opposes the proud</p><p class="line2">but shows favor to the humble.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Prov. 3:34">c</a></sup></span> </p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God's family.">d</a></sup></span> or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?</p> <p class="sectionhead">Boasting About Tomorrow</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely;</i> or <i>that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Prov. 3:34</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word for <i>brother or sister</i> (<i>adelphos</i>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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