Thematic Bible

James 4:1

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

James 4:2

Ye covet and have not; ye murder, and have envy and cannot obtain; ye fight and war and have not that which ye desire because ye ask not.

James 4:3

Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures.

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

James 4:5

Do ye think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?

James 4:6

But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

James 4:9

Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

James 4:11

Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper of the law, but a judge.

James 4:12

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou to judge another?

James 4:13

Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;

James 4:14

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

James 4:15

Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.

James 4:16

But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.

James 4:17

Therefore sin is still in the one that knows to do good and does not do it.