Things to Avoid
1 James 4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
2 James 4:2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 James 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
6 James 4:6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.”
7 James 4:7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 James 4:9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 James 4:11 Do not speak against one another, brethren. 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 of it.
12 James 4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
13 James 4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
14 James 4:14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
15 James 4:15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
16 James 4:16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
17 James 4:17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.