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| James 4:1 | From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? | From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which 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? |
| 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. | You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you 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. |
| James 4:3 | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. | You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences. | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. |
| 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. | Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an 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. |
| James 4:5 | Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? | Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you? | Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? |
| James 4:6 | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. | But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. |
| James 4:7 | Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you. | Be subject therefore unto God; but 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 double minded. | Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. |
| 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 into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
| James 4:10 | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. | Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall 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. | Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth 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. |
| James 4:12 | There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? | There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver. | 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? |
| 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: | But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our 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: |
| 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 you know not what shall be on the morrow. | 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. |
| James 4:15 | For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. | For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that. | For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. |
| James 4:16 | But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. | But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked. | But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying 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 who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin. | To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. |
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