{"book":"James","slug":"james","ch":4,"genre":"letter","sub":"James","prev":"james/3","next":"james/5","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"What [causes] conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t [they] [come] from [the] passions at war within you?","f":["Literally passions warring among your members?"],"h":"A Warning against Pride","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"You crave [what] {you do} not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain [it]. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you {do} not ask.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"[And when] you do ask, {you do} not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander [it] on your pleasures.","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"[You] adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility [toward] God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.","f":["See Hosea 3:1.","Or is appointed"],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"Or do you think the Scripture says without reason [that] the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?","f":["Or the spirit"]},{"v":6,"t":"But He gives [us] more grace. This is why it says:“ God opposes [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] humble.”","f":["Proverbs 3:34 (see also LXX)"],"lines":[{"style":"","t":"But He gives [us] more grace. This is why it says:"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ God opposes [the] proud,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"but gives grace to [the] humble.”"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":7,"t":"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.","f":[],"h":"Drawing Near to God","style":"reg"},{"v":8,"t":"Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded.","f":[]},{"v":9,"t":"Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and [your] joy to gloom.","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and He will exalt you.","f":[]},{"v":11,"t":"Brothers, {do} not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against [his] brother or judges [him] speaks against [the] law and judges [it]. And if you judge [the] law, you are not a practitioner of [the] law, but a judge [of it].","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the [One who] is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge [your] neighbor?","f":[]},{"v":13,"t":"Come now, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”","f":[],"h":"Do Not Boast about Tomorrow","style":"reg"},{"v":14,"t":"You do not even know what [will happen] tomorrow! What [is] your life? You are a mist that appears for a little [while] and then vanishes.","f":[]},{"v":15,"t":"Instead, you [ought] to say,“ If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":16,"t":"As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.","f":[]},{"v":17,"t":"Anyone, then, who knows [the] right thing to do, yet fails to do [it], is guilty of sin.","f":[]}]}