nsb - James:4

nsb@James:4:1 @ What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

nsb@James:4:2 @ You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

nsb@James:4:3 @ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly that you may spend it on your pleasures.

nsb@James:4:4 @ Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

nsb@James:4:5 @ Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?

nsb@James:4:6 @ But he gives more grace. The scripture said, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

nsb@James:4:7 @ Be subject to God! Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

nsb@James:4:8 @ Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

nsb@James:4:9 @ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

nsb@James:4:10 @ Humble yourselves in the presence of God, and he will exalt you.

nsb@James:4:11 @ Brothers, do not speak against each other. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

nsb@James:4:12 @ Only one is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you that you judge your neighbor?

nsb@James:4:13 @ Come now, you that say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit."

nsb@James:4:14 @ You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

nsb@James:4:15 @ You should say, "If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that."

nsb@James:4:16 @ You glory in your conceit. Such glory is evil.

nsb@James:4:17 @ He that knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.