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| James 4:1 | Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from 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? | 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 | You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. Yet you don't have, because you don't ask. | 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 covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. |
| James 4:3 | You ask, and don't receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for 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. | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. |
| James 4:4 | You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes 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. | 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 | Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? | 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"? | 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 gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives 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." | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. |
| James 4:7 | Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | Submit 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. |
| James 4:8 | Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. | 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 doubleminded. |
| James 4:9 | Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. | 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. |
| James 4:10 | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. | Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. |
| James 4:11 | Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are 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. | 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 | Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? | 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? | 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 | Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's 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," | 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 you don't 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 vanishes 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. | 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 you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will 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." | For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. |
| James 4:16 | But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. | But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil. | But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. |
| James 4:17 | To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, 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. | To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. |
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