James 4

1 Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, — from your pleasures, which war in your members?

From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?

2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.

3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

4 Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, knowe ye not that the amitie of the world is the enimitie of God? Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himselfe the enemie of God.

5 Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?

6 But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.

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

Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you.

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

Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe neere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.

9 Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse.

10 Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.

Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.

11 Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.

Speake not euill one of another, brethren. He that speaketh euill of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh euill of ye Law, and condemneth the Lawe: and if thou condemnest the Lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the Lawe, but a iudge.

12 One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou who judgest thy neighbour?

There is one Lawgiuer, which is able to saue, and to destroy. Who art thou that iudgest another man?

13 Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,

14 ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing, )

(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

15 instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.

16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

But now ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

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

Therefore, to him that knoweth how to doe well, and doeth it not, to him it is sinne.