James 4:1-12 - Subject Yourselves To God
1 From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts? 2 Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask. 3 Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?
6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.
7 Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded. 9 Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look. 10 Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?