English Bible Presentation Sharing - James Book, chapter 4, verse All in Asv Version

James 4 : 1 (ASV)

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

James 4 : 2 (ASV)

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

James 4 : 3 (ASV)

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

James 4 : 4 (ASV)

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

James 4 : 5 (ASV)

Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

James 4 : 6 (ASV)

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

James 4 : 7 (ASV)

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4 : 8 (ASV)

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

James 4 : 9 (ASV)

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

James 4 : 10 (ASV)

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

James 4 : 11 (ASV)

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

James 4 : 12 (ASV)

One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

James 4 : 13 (ASV)

Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

James 4 : 14 (ASV)

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

James 4 : 15 (ASV)

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

James 4 : 16 (ASV)

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

James 4 : 17 (ASV)

To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.