Thematic Bible
James 4:1 (show verse)
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
James 4:2 (show verse)
You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.
James 4:3 (show verse)
You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
James 4:4 (show verse)
You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.
James 4:5 (show verse)
Or, do you think that the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He jealously yearns for the Spirit that He causes to dwell in your hearts"?
James 4:6 (show verse)
But He gives a greater spiritual blessing. He says, "God opposes haughty people but blesses humble people."
James 4:7 (show verse)
So then, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.
James 4:8 (show verse)
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.
James 4:9 (show verse)
Be miserable, mourn ... and weep aloud. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your joy to gloom.
James 4:10 (show verse)
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you high.
James 4:11 (show verse)
Stop talking against one another, brothers. Whoever is in the habit of talking against a brother or of criticizing his brother is criticizing and condemning the law. But if you are in the habit of criticizing the law, you are not a practicer but a critic of the law.
James 4:12 (show verse)
There is but one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who has the power to save and to destroy; then who are you that you presume to judge your brother?
James 4:13 (show verse)
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money,"
James 4:14 (show verse)
although you do not have the slightest knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears.
James 4:15 (show verse)
Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord is willing, we shall live and do this or that."
James 4:16 (show verse)
But, as it is, you boast of your proud pretensions. All such boasting is wicked.
James 4:17 (show verse)
So when a man knows what is right but does not do it, he is guilty of sin.