Thematic Bible

James 4:1

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

James 4:2

Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

James 4:4

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

James 4:5

Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"

James 4:6

But He giveth more grace Wherefore, the Scripture says, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."

James 4:7

Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

James 4:9

Be wretched, 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 will exalt you.

James 4:11

Speak not one against another, brethren. 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

One is Law-giver and Judge??e Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor?

James 4:13

Come now, ye who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and trade, and get gain,"

James 4:14

(ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);

James 4:15

instead of your saying, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that."

James 4:16

But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.

James 4:17

To him, therefore, who knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.