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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? | From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from 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 | 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; | 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 | ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it]. | 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 | 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. | Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever 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 | Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in 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 | 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 giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to 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 | be subject, then, to God; stand up against 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 nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! | 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 | be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; | 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 | be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you. | Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up. | Humble yourselves before [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; | 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 judgest 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 | one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou who art thou that dost judge the other? | 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 | 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;` | Come 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 | 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; | Whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow: For what is your life? It is even a vapor, 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 your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;` | Instead of 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 | and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying 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 | to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him. | 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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