Thematic Bible

James 4:1

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

James 4:2

You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight ??you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;

James 4:3

you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

James 4:4

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

James 4:5

What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? ??'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.')

James 4:6

Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

James 4:7

Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:

James 4:8

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

Lament and mourn and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to depression;

James 4:10

humble yourselves before the Lord, and then he will raise you up.

James 4:11

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James 4:12

follow 2:13] Do not defame one another, brothers; he who defames or judges his brother defames and judges the Law; and if you judge the Law, you pass sentence on it instead of obeying it.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

James 4:14

James 4:15

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

James 4:16

But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.

James 4:17

[follows 2:26] Whoever, then, knows what is right to do and does not do it, that is a sin for him.