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| James 4:1 | Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? | What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? | 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 desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; | You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it. | 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 ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it]. | You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure. | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. |
| James 4:4 | Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set. | O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater 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 emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,` | Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for 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 | and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?` | But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him. | But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. |
| James 4:7 | be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; | For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before 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 hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! | Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. | 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 exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; | Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
| James 4:10 | be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you. | Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him. | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. |
| James 4:11 | Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; | Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, 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 | one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou who art thou that dost judge the other? | There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge? | 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, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;` | How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: | 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 | who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; | When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. | 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 | instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;` | But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that. | For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. |
| James 4:16 | and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil; | But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil. | But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. |
| James 4:17 | to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him. | The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, 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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