The Bible

James Chapter 4

¹Where do wars and fightings come from among you-all? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your body-parts? ²You-all lust, and don't have. you-all murder and covet, and can't obtain. you-all fight and make war. You-all don't have, because you-all don't ask. ³You-all ask, and don't receive, because you-all ask with wrong motives, so that you-all may spend it on your pleasures. ⁴You-all adulteresses, don't you-all know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes themselves an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you-all think that the Scripture in vain says, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? ⁶But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." ⁷So be subject to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you-all. ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you-all. Cleanse your hands, you-all shortcomers. Purify your hearts, you-all double-minded. ⁹Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of ForeverOne, and he will exalt you-all.

¹¹Don't slander one another, brothers. The one who slanders a brother and judges their brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. ¹²There's only one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

¹³Come now, you-all who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." ¹⁴You-all don't even know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then disappears. ¹⁵For you-all ought to say, "If it's ForeverOne's will, we will both live, and do this or that." ¹⁶But now you-all glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷So to the one who knows to do good but doesn't do it, to them it is a shortcoming.