James 4

¹ What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings^(A) that are at war within you?^(a)

^{1 (a)}What is the source of quarrels and ^(A)conflicts among you? ^(b)Is not the source your pleasures that wage ^(B)war in your members?

¹ From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

¹ Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

¹ What leads to [the unending] ^(a)quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your [hedonistic] desires that wage war in your [bodily] members [fighting for control over you]?

³ You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.^(B)

³ You ask and ^(D)do not receive, because you ask ^(c)with wrong motives, so that you may spend it ^(d)on your pleasures.

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

³ You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.

³ You ask [God for something] and do not receive it, because you ask ^(d)with wrong motives [out of selfishness or with an unrighteous agenda], so that [when you get what you want] you may spend it on your [hedonistic] desires.

⁵ Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?^(d)(D)

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture ^(I)speaks to no purpose: “^(e)He ^(f)jealously desires ^(J)the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

⁵ Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

⁵ Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose ^(e)that the [human] spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy?^(B)

⁷ Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.^(F)

^{7 (M)}Submit therefore to God. ^(N)Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁷ Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.

⁷ So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.

⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.^(H)

^{9 (S)}Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

⁹ Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.

⁹ Be miserable and grieve and weep [over your sin]. Let your [foolish] laughter be turned to mourning and your [reckless] joy to gloom.

¹¹ Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.^(I)

^{11 (U)}Do not speak against one another, ^(V)brethren. He who speaks against a brother or ^(W)judges his brother, speaks against ^(X)the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not ^(Y)a doer of the law but a judge of it.

¹¹ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

¹¹ Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge.

¹¹ Believers, do not speak against or slander one another. He who speaks [self-righteously] against a brother or ^(f)judges his brother [hypocritically], speaks against the Law and judges the Law. If you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law but a judge of it.

¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”^(K)

^{13 (AC)}Come now, you who say, “^(AD)Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

¹³ Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

¹³ Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money."

¹³ Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.”

¹⁵ Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

^{15 (i)}Instead, you ought to say, “^(AF)If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”

¹⁵ For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

¹⁵ Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."

¹⁵ Instead ⁽ⁱ⁾you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.”

¹⁷ So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.^(N)

¹⁷ Therefore, ^(AH)to one who knows the ^(k)right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

¹⁷ Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.

¹⁷ So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.