tcent James:4
tcent@James:4:1 @ What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
tcent@James:4:2 @ You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
tcent@James:4:3 @ You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
tcent@James:4:4 @ You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
tcent@James:4:5 @ Or do you think that the Scripture says without reason: »He jealously desires the Spirit which he has made to dwell in us«?
tcent@James:4:6 @ But he gives more grace. Therefore it says,
tcent@James:4:7 @ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
tcent@James:4:8 @ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
tcent@James:4:9 @ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
tcent@James:4:10 @ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
tcent@James:4:11 @ Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against 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.
tcent@James:4:12 @ There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But youwho are you to judge your neighbor?
tcent@James:4:13 @ Come now, you who say, »Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.«
tcent@James:4:14 @ Yet you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
tcent@James:4:15 @ Instead, you ought to say, »If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.«
tcent@James:4:16 @ As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
tcent@James:4:17 @ Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.