Jas4:1 Whereof be battles and chidings among you? Whether not of your covetings, that fight in your members?
Jas4:2 Ye covet, and ye have not; ye slay, and ye have envy, and ye be not able to get [ye slay, and have envy, and ye be not able to get]. Ye chide, and make battle; and ye have not, for that ye ask not.
Jas4:3 Ye ask, and ye receive not; for that ye ask evil, as ye show openly in your covetings.
Jas4:4 Adulterers, know not ye, that the friendship of this world is enemy to God? Therefore whoever will be the friend of this world, is made the enemy of God.
Jas4:5 Whether ye guess [Whether ween ye], that the scripture saith vainly, The spirit that dwelleth in you, coveteth to envy?
Jas4:6 But he giveth the more grace [Forsooth he giveth more grace]; for which thing he saith, God withstandeth proud men, but to meek men he giveth grace.
Jas4:7 Therefore be ye subject to God; but withstand ye the devil, and he shall flee from you.
Jas4:8 Approach ye to God, and he shall approach to you. Ye sinners, cleanse ye the hands, and ye double in soul, purge ye the hearts. [ a ]
Jas4:9 Be ye wretches, and wail ye [and weep ye]; your laughing be [it] turned into weeping, and [your] joy into sorrow of heart.
Jas4:10 Be ye meeked in the sight of the Lord, and he shall enhance you.
Jas4:11 My brethren, do not ye backbite each other. He that backbiteth his brother, either that deemeth his brother [or that deemeth his brother], backbiteth the law, and deemeth the law. And if thou deemest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a doomsman.
Jas4:12 But one is maker of the law, and judge, that may destroy, and deliver [that may lose, and deliver]. And who art thou, that deemest thy neighbour?
Jas4:13 Lo! now ye, that say, To day either to morrow [To day or to morrow] we shall go into that city, and there we shall dwell a year, and we shall make merchandise, and we shall make winning;
Jas4:14 which know not [that know not], what is to you in the morrow. For what is your life? A smoke [A vapour, or smoke ,] appearing at a little time, and afterward it shall be wasted.
Jas4:15 Therefore that ye say, If the Lord will, and if we [shall] live, we shall do this thing, either that thing [or that thing].
Jas4:16 And now ye make full out joy in your prides; every such joying is wicked.
Jas4:17 Therefore it is sin to him, that knoweth to do good, and doeth not. [Therefore to a man knowing to do good, and not doing, sin is to him.]