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| | The King James Version Online Bible (KJV) | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) | The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) |
| James 4:1 | From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? | Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? | What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures? |
| James 4:2 | 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. | Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. | You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray; |
| James 4:3 | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. | or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another. |
| James 4:4 | 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. | Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. | You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God. |
| James 4:5 | Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? | Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? | Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "The Spirit which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns jealously over us"? |
| James 4:6 | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. | But He gives more abundant grace, as is implied in His saying, "God sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly He gives grace." |
| James 4:7 | Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. |
| James 4:8 | Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. | Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. | Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God. |
| James 4:9 | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. | Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame. |
| James 4:10 | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. | Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. |
| James 4:11 | 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. | Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. | Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it. |
| James 4:12 | There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? | One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor? | The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to save or to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man? |
| James 4:13 | 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: | Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: | Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business," |
| James 4:14 | 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. | whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. | when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more. |
| James 4:15 | For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. | For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. | Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that." |
| James 4:16 | But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. | But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. | But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil. |
| James 4:17 | Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. | To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. | If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin. |
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