Thematic Bible
James 4:1 (show verse)
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
James 4:2 (show verse)
You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask;
James 4:3 (show verse)
you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.
James 4:4 (show verse)
Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.
James 4:5 (show verse)
Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy?
James 4:6 (show verse)
But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
James 4:7 (show verse)
Be subject therefore to God; resist the devil and he will flee from you;
James 4:8 (show verse)
draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded.
James 4:9 (show verse)
Lament, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.
James 4:10 (show verse)
Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
James 4:11 (show verse)
Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
James 4:12 (show verse)
There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?
James 4:13 (show verse)
Come now, you that say, To-day and to-morrow we will go to such a city and engage in business there a year, and trade and make profits,
James 4:14 (show verse)
who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away;
James 4:15 (show verse)
for you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall both live and do this or that.
James 4:16 (show verse)
But now you glory in your boasting; all such glorying is evil.
James 4:17 (show verse)
He therefore that knows how to do good and does it not, to him it is sin.