﻿James.
Chapter 4.
Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your pleasures that wage war in your members? 
You desire and do not have. You murder and envy and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask. 
You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your pleasures. 
Adulteresses! 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. 
Or do you think that the Scripture speaks in vain: “He yearns jealously for the spirit he made to dwell in us”? 
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 
Be distressed and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 
Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 
There is one lawgiver and judge, the one who can save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? 
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 
Yet you do not know what your life will be tomorrow. For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 
So for anyone who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is sin. 
