English Bible Presentation Sharing - James Book, chapter 4, verse 1 in Esv Version

James 4 : 1 (ESV)

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

James 4 : 2 (ESV)

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

James 4 : 3 (ESV)

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

James 4 : 4 (ESV)

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

James 4 : 5 (ESV)

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us"?

James 4 : 6 (ESV)

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

James 4 : 7 (ESV)

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4 : 8 (ESV)

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4 : 9 (ESV)

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

James 4 : 10 (ESV)

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

James 4 : 11 (ESV)

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

James 4 : 12 (ESV)

There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

James 4 : 13 (ESV)

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-

James 4 : 14 (ESV)

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

James 4 : 15 (ESV)

Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

James 4 : 16 (ESV)

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

James 4 : 17 (ESV)

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.