Thematic Bible
James 4:1 (show verse)
What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?
James 4:2 (show verse)
You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
James 4:3 (show verse)
You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly (with bad motives) that you may spend it on your pleasures.
James 4:4 (show verse)
Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:5 (show verse)
Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart (mental disposition) that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?
James 4:6 (show verse)
But he gives more grace. The scripture said, God resists the proud, but gives grace (loving-kindness) to the humble.
James 4:7 (show verse)
Be subject to God! Resist [Satan] the Devil and he will flee from you.
James 4:8 (show verse)
Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).
James 4:9 (show verse)
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
James 4:10 (show verse)
Humble yourselves in the presence of God, and he will exalt you.
James 4:11 (show verse)
Brothers, do not speak against each other. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
James 4:12 (show verse)
Only one is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you that you judge your neighbor?
James 4:13 (show verse)
Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit.
James 4:14 (show verse)
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
James 4:15 (show verse)
You should say, If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that.
James 4:16 (show verse)
You glory in your conceit. Such glory is evil.
James 4:17 (show verse)
He that knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.