H.
Dealing with pleasures, the world, and the devil
4:1-10
James 4
:1
4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you
come from? Are they not from this, from your
1apleasures that
bwar in your members?
James 4
:2
4:2
You 1alust and do not have; you
bmurder and are
cjealous and are not able to obtain; you fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask;
James 4
:3
4:3
You aask and do not receive because you ask evilly that you may spend
it on your
bpleasures.
James 4
:4
4:4
1aAdulteresses, do you not know that the
2friendship of the
3bworld is enmity with God? Therefore whoever determines to be a
cfriend of the world is constituted an
4enemy of God.
James 4
:5
4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain:"The
1Spirit, whom He has caused to
2adwell in us, longs to envy''?
James 4
:6
4:6
But He gives
agreater grace; therefore
1it says,
2"God resists the
3bproud but gives grace to the
chumble.''
James 4
:7
4:7
1Be subject therefore to God; but
2awithstand the
3bdevil, and he will flee from you.
James 4
:8
4:8
aDraw near to God, and He will
bdraw near to you.
cCleanse your hands, sinners, and
dpurify your hearts,
you 1double-souled!
James 4
:9
4:9
1Endure amisery and
bmourn and
cweep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into dejection.
James 4
:10
4:10
1Be ahumbled before the Lord, and He will
bexalt you.
I.
Not speaking against the brothers
4:11-12
James 4
:11
4:11
Do not speak against
aone another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or
bjudges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a
1cdoer of the law but a judge.
James 4
:12
4:12
One is
aLawgiver and
bJudge, who is able to save and
cdestroy. But who are you who
djudge your neighbor?
J.
Confiding not in self-will but in the Lord
4:13-17
James 4
:13
4:13
Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we
1will go into this or that city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit;
James 4
:14
4:14
Whereas you do not know the matter of
atomorrow, what your
blife will be; for you are a
1cvapor, which appears for a little while and then disappears.
James 4
:15
4:15
Instead you
ought to say, If the Lord
awills, we will both live and do this or that.
James 4
:16
4:16
But now you
aboast in your
1arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
James 4
:17
4:17
1Therefore to him who
aknows to do good and does not do
it, to him it is
bsin.
