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Is it not this, that your passions<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek pleasures; also verse 3">a</a></sup></span> are at war within you?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek in your members">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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 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 wrongly, to spend it on your passions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You adulterous people!<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or You adulteresses!">c</a></sup></span> 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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Submit yourselves therefore 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>Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse 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>Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned 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 exalt you.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brothers and sisters">d</a></sup></span> 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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?</p> <p class="heading">Boasting About Tomorrow</p><p class="regular"><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 we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, 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 arrogance. All such boasting is evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Greek <i>pleasures</i>; also verse 3<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Greek <i>in your members</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">You</span> adulteresses!</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">brothers</span> and sisters</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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