James 4

RKJNT^{(i) 1} What causes strife and quarrels among you? do they not come from your passions, which are at war in your members? ² You covet, and do not have, so you kill; and envy, and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. ³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your pleasures. ⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. ⁵ Do you think that the scripture speaks in vain when it says, The spirit he made to dwell in us tends toward envious desires? ⁶ But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ⁷ Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Be miserable, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. ¹¹ Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge of it. ¹² There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you to judge your neighbour? ¹³ Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, and remain there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit. ¹⁴ Yet you do not even know what shall happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is just a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. ¹⁵ Instead you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that. ¹⁶ But now you boast in your presumption: all such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ Therefore, for him who knows the good he ought to do, and does not do it, for him it is sin.