Thematic Bible
James 4:1 (show verse)
What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
James 4:2 (show verse)
You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
James 4:3 (show verse)
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
James 4:4 (show verse)
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:5 (show verse)
Or do you think that the Scripture says without reason: "He jealously desires the Spirit which he has made to dwell in us"?
James 4:6 (show verse)
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
James 4:7 (show verse)
Submit yourselves therefore to God. 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, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:9 (show verse)
Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
James 4:10 (show verse)
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:11 (show verse)
Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
James 4:12 (show verse)
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But youwho are you to judge your neighbor?
James 4:13 (show verse)
Come now, you who say, "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."
James 4:14 (show verse)
Yet you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
James 4:15 (show verse)
Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."
James 4:16 (show verse)
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
James 4:17 (show verse)
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.