# James 4

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? [2] You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. [3] And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. [4] You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. [5] Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy? [6] But He gives us more grace. This is why it says:
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.” [7] Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. [8] Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. [9] Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. [10] Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you. [11] Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it. [12] There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? [13] Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” [14] You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. [15] Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” [16] As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. [17] Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

## Each verse

- James 4:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/1
- James 4:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/2
- James 4:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/3
- James 4:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/4
- James 4:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/5
- James 4:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/6
- James 4:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/7
- James 4:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/8
- James 4:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/9
- James 4:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/10
- James 4:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/11
- James 4:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/12
- James 4:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/13
- James 4:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/14
- James 4:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/15
- James 4:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/16
- James 4:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/4/17