James 4

1From from where wars and fightings among you? not hence, of your lusts that war in your members? 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume upon your lusts. 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with Elohim? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of Elohim. 5Do ye think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6But he giveth more grace. therefore he says, Elohim resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7Submit yourselves therefore to Elohim. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw nigh to Elohim, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse hands, sinners; and purify hearts, double minded. 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to heaviness. 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if you judge the law, you art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art you that judgest another? 13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14Whereas ye know not what on the morrow. For what your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and does not, to him it is sin.