4James 4

CHAP. IIII. / 1 Wee are to striue against couetousnesse, 4 intemperance, 5 pride, 11 detraction, and rash iudgement of others: 13 and not to bee confident in the good successe of worldly businesse, bu

1From whence come warres and fightings among you? come they not hence, euen of your lusts, that warre in your members?Select James 4:1

2Ye lust, and haue not: yee kill, and desire to haue, and cannot obtaine: yee fight and warre, yet yee haue not, because ye aske not.Select James 4:2

3Ye aske and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that yee may consume it vpon your lusts.Select James 4:3

4Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.Select James 4:4

5Doe ye thinke that the Scripture saith in vaine, the spirit that dwelleth in vs lusteth to enuy?Select James 4:5

6But he giueth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proude, but giueth grace vnto the humble.Select James 4:6

7Submit your selues therefore to God: resist the deuill, and hee will flee from you.Select James 4:7

8Draw nigh to God, and hee will draw nigh to you: cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purifie your hearts yee double minded.Select James 4:8

9Bee afflicted, and mourne, and weepe: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your ioy to heauinesse.Select James 4:9

10Humble your selues in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you vp.Select James 4:10

11Speake not euill one of another (brethren:) he that speaketh euill of his brother, and iudgeth his brother, speaketh euill of the Law, and iudgeth the Law: but if thou iudge the Law, thou art not a doer of the Law, but a iudge.Select James 4:11

12There is one Lawgiuer, who is able to saue, and to destroy: who art thou that iudgest another?Select James 4:12

13Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morrow wee will goe into such a city and continue there a yere, and buy, and sell, and get gaine:Select James 4:13

14Whereas yee know not what shalbe on the morow. for what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and then vanisheth away.Select James 4:14

15For that yee ought to say, if the, Lord will, we shall liue, and doe this, or that.Select James 4:15

16But now yee reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.Select James 4:16

17Therefore to him that knoweth to doe good, and doth it not, to him it is sinne.Select James 4:17