English Bible Presentation Sharing - James Book, chapter 4, verse 13 in Net Version

James 4 : 1 (NET)

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

James 4 : 2 (NET)

You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

James 4 : 3 (NET)

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

James 4 : 4 (NET)

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.

James 4 : 5 (NET)

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

James 4 : 6 (NET)

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

James 4 : 7 (NET)

So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.

James 4 : 8 (NET)

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

James 4 : 9 (NET)

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

James 4 : 10 (NET)

Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

James 4 : 11 (NET)

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

James 4 : 12 (NET)

But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge� the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?

James 4 : 13 (NET)

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."

James 4 : 14 (NET)

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

James 4 : 15 (NET)

You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that."

James 4 : 16 (NET)

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

James 4 : 17 (NET)

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.