KJ3 Literal Translation
James 4
1 We are to strive against covetousness, 4 intemperance, and rash judgment of others, 13 to commit all our affairs to God’s providence.
1From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts, the ones warring in your members?
2You desire and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and are not able to obtain. You fight and you war, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
3You ask, and do not receive, because you ask badly, in order that you may spend on your pleasures.
4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever purposes to be a friend of the world is put down as a hostile one to God.
5Or do you think that vainly the Scripture says, The spirit which has dwelt in us yearns to envy?
6But He gives greater grace. Because of this it says, “God sets Himself against proud ones, but He gives grace to humble ones.” Prov. 3:34
7Therefore be subject to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners! And purify your hearts, double-souled ones!
9Be distressed, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy into shame.
10Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11Do not speak against one another, brothers. The one speaking against a brother, and judging a brother, he speaks against Law, and judges Law. But if you judge Law, you are not a doer of Law, but a judge.
12One is the Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; who are you who judges the other?
13Come now, the ones saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and we will spend one year there, and we will trade and will make a profit,
14who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little is appearing, and then disappearing. Ps. 94:11
15Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, even we will live, and we will do this or that;
16but now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.
17Therefore, to anyone knowing to do good, and not doing it, it is sin to him.
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