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

James 4 : 1 (HCSB)

What is the source of the wars and the fights among you? Don't they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

James 4 : 2 (HCSB)

You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

James 4 : 3 (HCSB)

You ask and don't receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend it on your desires for pleasure.

James 4 : 4 (HCSB)

Adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy.

James 4 : 5 (HCSB)

Or do you think it's without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit He has caused to live in us yearns jealously?

James 4 : 6 (HCSB)

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

James 4 : 7 (HCSB)

Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4 : 8 (HCSB)

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

James 4 : 9 (HCSB)

Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.

James 4 : 10 (HCSB)

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

James 4 : 11 (HCSB)

Don't criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes 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 (HCSB)

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

James 4 : 13 (HCSB)

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."

James 4 : 14 (HCSB)

You don't even know what tomorrow will bring-- what your life will be! For you are a bit of smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

James 4 : 15 (HCSB)

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

James 4 : 16 (HCSB)

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

James 4 : 17 (HCSB)

So, for the person who knows to do good and doesn't do it, it is a sin.