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| James 4:1 | What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures? | 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 fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members? |
| James 4:2 | 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; | 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 are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not. |
| James 4:3 | 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. | 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 evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures. |
| James 4:4 | 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. | 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. | Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God. |
| James 4:5 | 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"? | Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? | Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? |
| James 4:6 | 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." | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. | But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly. |
| James 4:7 | Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. | Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. |
| James 4:8 | 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. | Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. | Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded. |
| James 4:9 | Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame. | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. | Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. |
| James 4:10 | Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. | Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you. |
| James 4:11 | 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. | 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 against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge. |
| James 4:12 | 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? | There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? | One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour? |
| James 4:13 | 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," | 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: | Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain, |
| James 4:14 | 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. | 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. | ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,) |
| James 4:15 | Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that." | For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. | instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that. |
| James 4:16 | But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil. | But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. | But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. |
| James 4:17 | If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin. | Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. | To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin. |
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