James 4 NKJV

<!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 NKJV</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">NKJV</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 King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/james/4.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Pride Promotes Strife</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Jas-4-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Where do <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>wars and fights <i>come</i> from among you? Do <i>they</i> not <i>come</i> from your <i>desires for</i> pleasure that war in your members? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>war. <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>Yet you do not have because you do not ask. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend <i>it</i> on your pleasures. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Jas-4-6"><span class="oblique">“God resists the proud,</span></span><br /><span class="text Jas-4-6"><span class="oblique">But gives grace to the humble.”</span></span></p></div> <h3> Humility Cures Worldliness</span></h3><p><span class="text Jas-4-7"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse <i>your</i> hands, <i>you</i> sinners; and purify <i>your</i> hearts, <i>you</i> double-minded. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and <i>your</i> joy to gloom. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.</span></p> <h3> Do Not Judge a Brother</span></h3><p><span class="text Jas-4-11"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There is one <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span> are you to judge <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>another?</span></p> <h3> Do Not Boast About Tomorrow</span></h3><p><span class="text Jas-4-13"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>whereas you do not know what <i>will happen</i> tomorrow. For what <i>is</i> your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Instead you <i>ought</i> to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do <i>it,</i> to him it is sin.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-30339a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:1">James 4:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>battles</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30340b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:2">James 4:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>battle</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30340c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:2">James 4:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU, M omit <i>Yet</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30342d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:4">James 4:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>Adulterers and</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30350e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:12">James 4:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU adds <i>and Judge</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30350f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:12">James 4:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU, M <i>But who</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30350g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:12">James 4:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU <i>a neighbor</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30351h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to James 4:13">James 4:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>M <i>let us</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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