| Chapter 4 |
1 | From whence come wars and fightings
among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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2 | Ye lust, and have
not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye
have not, because ye ask not. |
3 | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts. |
4
| Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God. |
5 |
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth
in us lusteth to envy? |
6 |
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble. |
7 | Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you. |
8 |
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye
sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. |
9 | Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
10 | Humble yourselves in the
sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. |
11 | Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He
that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of
the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of
the law, but a judge. |
12
| There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art
thou that judgest another? |
13 | Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into
such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: |
14 | Whereas ye know not
what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that
appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. |
15 | For that ye ought to say, If the
Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. |
16 | But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all
such rejoicing is evil. |
17
| Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him
it is sin. |
