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Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge--the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href "//netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. //netbible.com. 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