Darby's English Translation

James 3

The General Epistle of James

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Chapter 4

1


 

  Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?  

 

 


2


 

  Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.  

 

 


3


 

  Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.  

 

 


4


 

  Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.  

 

 


5


 

  Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?  

 

 


6


 

  But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.  

 

 


7


 

  Subject yourselves therefore 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, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.  

 

 


9


 

  Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.  

 

 


10


 

  Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.  

 

 


11


 

  Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.  

 

 


12


 

  One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou who judgest thy neighbour?  

 

 


13


 

  Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,  

 

 


14


 

  ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)  

 

 


15


 

  instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.  

 

 


16


 

  But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.  

 

 


17


 

  To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.  

 

 


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