James 4

1 From whence are there among you wars and strifes? Is it not from the lusts which war in your members?

Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?

2 You desire, and have not; you kill and are emulous, yet it cometh not into your hands; you strive and make wars, and nothing have because you do not ask;

You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

3 you ask and receive not, because you ask wickedly, as that you may cherish your lusts.

You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is enmity with Aloha? He, therefore, who willeth to be the friend of this world, hath become the enemy of Aloha.

You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5 Or do you vainly think that the scripture saith, that In emulation desireth the Spirit who dwelleth in us?

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Ruach which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?

6 But more excellent grace hath our Lord given unto us. Wherefore he saith, Aloha humbleth the proud, and to the humble he giveth grace.

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

7 BE subject, therefore, unto Aloha; withstand Satana, and he will flee from you;

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 and draw nigh unto Aloha, and he will be nigh you. Purify your hands, sinners, and sanctify your hearts, divided of soul.

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

9 Be humbled and sorrowful, and let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into anxiety.

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

10 Be humbled before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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

11 Speak not against one another, my brethren; for he who speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if the law thou judgest, thou art not a doer of the law, but the judge of it.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He 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.

12 For one is the appointer of the law and the Judge, who can save and destroy. But thou, who art thou, who judgest thy neighbour?

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

13 But what shall we say of them who say, To-day or tomorrow we will go to this city, or that, and work there one year, and negotiate, and make gain?

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

14 and they know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is our life, but a vapour which for a little while is seen, and vanisheth and endeth?

Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

15 For instead they should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will do this or that.

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

16 They glory in their pride. All glorying such as this is from the Evil.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

17 And he who knoweth the good and doeth it not, sin is to him.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.