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| | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) | The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) |
| James 4:1 | Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence out of your passions, that are as soldiers 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? | What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? |
| 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 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; | 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. |
| James 4:3 | ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it]. | 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. | 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. |
| James 4:5 | Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,` | 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 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? |
| 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 abundant grace, as is implied in His saying, "God sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly He gives 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. |
| James 4:7 | be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; | Submit therefore to God: resist 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. |
| 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 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. | 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. |
| James 4:9 | be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; | Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame. | Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. |
| James 4:10 | be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you. | Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. | Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him. |
| 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 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. | 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. |
| James 4:12 | one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou who art thou that dost judge the other? | 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 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? |
| 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, 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," | 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: |
| 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, 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. | 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. |
| James 4:15 | instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall 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." | 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. |
| James 4:16 | and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil; | But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil. | But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil. |
| James 4:17 | to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him. | If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin. | The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. |
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