Thematic Bible
James 4:1 (show verse)
FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?
James 4:2 (show verse)
Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not.
James 4:3 (show verse)
Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.
James 4:4 (show verse)
Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.
James 4:5 (show verse)
Think ye that the scripture saith without meaning, The spirit which dwelleth in you strongly urges to envy?
James 4:6 (show verse)
But he giveth mightier grace. Wherefore he saith, "God sets himself against the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly."
James 4:7 (show verse)
Be in subjection then to God. Resist the devil, and he will fly from you.
James 4:8 (show verse)
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
James 4:9 (show verse)
Be bitterly afflicted and lament, and let your tears run down; let your laughter be converted into mourning, and your joy into dejection.
James 4:10 (show verse)
Be humbled in the presence of God, so he will exalt you.
James 4:11 (show verse)
Traduce not one another, brethren. He that traduceth his brother, and judgeth his brother, traduceth the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but as judge.
James 4:12 (show verse)
There is one lawgiver, who can save or destroy: who art thou that judgest another man?
James 4:13 (show verse)
Come now, ye that talk, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a town, and do business there during one year, and traffic, and make great profits:
James 4:14 (show verse)
though ye know nothing of what shall be to-morrow. For what is your life? It is but a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and then vanishes away.
James 4:15 (show verse)
Instead of your saying, If the Lord pleases, and we are alive, then we will do this or that thing.
James 4:16 (show verse)
But now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked.
James 4:17 (show verse)
Therefore if a man knoweth how to act properly, and doth not, he is criminal.