THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES 4

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1 From whence come wars and fightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members ⚑

2 Ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask not ⚑

3 Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts ⚑

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God ⚑

5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy ⚑

6 But he giveth more grace Wherefore he saith God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble ⚑

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God Resist the devil and he will flee from you ⚑

8 Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you Cleanse your hands ye sinners and purify your hearts ye double minded ⚑

9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness ⚑

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up ⚑

11 Speak not evil one of another brethren He that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law thou art not a doer of the law but a judge ⚑

12 There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy who art thou that judgest another ⚑

13 Go to now ye that say To day or to morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain ⚑

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow For what is your life It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away ⚑

15 For that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that ⚑

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings all such rejoicing is evil ⚑

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain