Thematic Bible
James 4:1 (show verse)
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?
James 4:2 (show verse)
You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
James 4:3 (show verse)
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
James 4:4 (show verse)
Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.
James 4:5 (show verse)
Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?
James 4:6 (show verse)
But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:
God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.
but gives grace to the humble.
James 4:7 (show verse)
Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:8 (show verse)
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!
James 4:9 (show verse)
Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.
James 4:10 (show verse)
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
James 4:11 (show verse)
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.
James 4:12 (show verse)
There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
James 4:13 (show verse)
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.”
James 4:14 (show verse)
You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
James 4:15 (show verse)
Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:16 (show verse)
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
James 4:17 (show verse)
So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.