James 4:1-10 ▼

1 From where [are] wars and fightings among you? [Is it] not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?

2 You desire, and do not have, [so] you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, [so] you fight and war; and you do not have, because of your not asking;

3 you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.

4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, may intend to be a friend of the world, he is designated [as] an enemy of God.

5 Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”

6 but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”

7 Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;

8 draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!

9 Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;

10 be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.