Thematic Bible
James 4:1 (show verse)
From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?
James 4:2 (show verse)
You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; 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, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
James 4:4 (show verse)
Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.
James 4:5 (show verse)
Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?
James 4:6 (show verse)
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
James 4:7 (show verse)
Therefore subject yourselves 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, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded!
James 4:9 (show verse)
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.
James 4:10 (show verse)
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:11 (show verse)
Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge [of the law].
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 carry on business and make a profit,"
James 4:14 (show verse)
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.
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 now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
James 4:17 (show verse)
Therefore, to the one who knows to do good and does not do [it], to him it is sin.