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World English Bible

James 4 (WEBP)

[1] Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
[2] You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
[3] You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
[4] You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
[5] Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
[6] But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
[7] Be subject therefore 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. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
[9] Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
[10] Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
[11] Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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.
[12] Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
[13] Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
[14] Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
[15] For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
[16] But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
[17] To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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King James w/Strong’s #s

James 4 (KJVS)

[1] From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war () in your members?
[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.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

James 4 (BYZ)

[1] Πόθεν () πόλεμοι () καὶ () μάχαι () ἐν () ὑμῖν; () Οὐκ () ἐντεῦθεν, () ἐκ () τῶν () ἡδονῶν () ὑμῶν () τῶν () στρατευομένων () ἐν () τοῖς () μέλεσιν () ὑμῶν; ()
[2] Ἐπιθυμεῖτε, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἔχετε· () φονεύετε () καὶ () ζηλοῦτε, () καὶ () οὐ () δύνασθε () ἐπιτυχεῖν· () μάχεσθε () καὶ () πολεμεῖτε, () οὐκ () ἔχετε () διὰ () τὸ () μὴ () αἰτεῖσθαι () ὑμᾶς· ()
[3] αἰτεῖτε, () καὶ () οὐ () λαμβάνετε, () διότι () κακῶς () αἰτεῖσθε, () ἵνα () ἐν () ταῖς () ἡδοναῖς () ὑμῶν () δαπανήσητε. ()
[4] Μοιχοὶ () καὶ () μοιχαλίδες, () οὐκ () οἴδατε () ὅτι () ἡ () φιλία () τοῦ () κόσμου () ἔχθρα () τοῦ () θεοῦ () ἐστίν; () Ὃς () ἂν () οὖν () βουληθῇ () φίλος () εἶναι () τοῦ () κόσμου, () ἐχθρὸς () τοῦ () θεοῦ () καθίσταται. ()
[5] Ἢ () δοκεῖτε () ὅτι () κενῶς () ἡ () γραφὴ () λέγει; () Πρὸς () φθόνον () ἐπιποθεῖ () τὸ () () πνεῦμα () () ὃ () κατῴκησεν () ἐν () ἡμῖν. ()
[6] Μείζονα () δὲ () δίδωσιν () χάριν· () διὸ () λέγει, () Ὁ () θεὸς () ὑπερηφάνοις () ἀντιτάσσεται, () ταπεινοῖς () δὲ () δίδωσιν () χάριν. ()
[7] Ὑποτάγητε () οὖν () τῷ () θεῷ· () ἀντίστητε () δὲ () τῷ () διαβόλῳ, () καὶ () φεύξεται () ἀφ’ () ὑμῶν. ()
[8] Ἐγγίσατε () τῷ () θεῷ, () καὶ () ἐγγιεῖ () ὑμῖν· () καθαρίσατε () χεῖρας, () ἁμαρτωλοί, () καὶ () ἁγνίσατε () καρδίας, () δίψυχοι. ()
[9] Ταλαιπωρήσατε () καὶ () πενθήσατε () καὶ () κλαύσατε· () ὁ () γέλως () ὑμῶν () εἰς () πένθος () μεταστραφήτω, () καὶ () ἡ () χαρὰ () εἰς () κατήφειαν. ()
[10] Ταπεινώθητε () ἐνώπιον () τοῦ () κυρίου, () καὶ () ὑψώσει () ὑμᾶς. ()
[11] Μὴ () καταλαλεῖτε () ἀλλήλων, () ἀδελφοί. () Ὁ () καταλαλῶν () ἀδελφοῦ, () καὶ () κρίνων () τὸν () ἀδελφὸν () αὐτοῦ, () καταλαλεῖ () νόμου, () καὶ () κρίνει () νόμον· () εἰ () δὲ () νόμον () κρίνεις, () οὐκ () εἶ () ποιητὴς () νόμου, () ἀλλὰ () κριτής. ()
[12] Εἷς () ἐστὶν () ὁ () νομοθέτης, () ὁ () δυνάμενος () σῶσαι () καὶ () ἀπολέσαι· () σὺ () δὲ () τίς () εἶ () ὃς () κρίνεις () τὸν () ἕτερον; ()
[13] Ἄγε () νῦν () οἱ () λέγοντες, () Σήμερον () καὶ () αὔριον () πορευσώμεθα () εἰς () τήνδε () τὴν () πόλιν, () καὶ () ποιήσωμεν () ἐκεῖ () ἐνιαυτὸν () ἕνα, () καὶ () ἐμπορευσώμεθα, () καὶ () κερδήσωμεν· ()
[14] οἵτινες () οὐκ () ἐπίστασθε () τὸ () τῆς () αὔριον. () Ποία () γὰρ () ἡ () ζωὴ () ὑμῶν; () Ἀτμὶς () γὰρ () ἔσται () ἡ () πρὸς () ὀλίγον () φαινομένη, () ἔπειτα () δὲ () καὶ () ἀφανιζομένη. ()
[15] Ἀντὶ () τοῦ () λέγειν () ὑμᾶς, () Ἐὰν () ὁ () κύριος () θελήσῃ, () καὶ () ζήσωμεν, () καὶ () ποιήσωμεν () τοῦτο () ἢ () ἐκεῖνο. ()
[16] Νῦν () δὲ () καυχᾶσθε () ἐν () ταῖς () ἀλαζονείαις () ὑμῶν· () πᾶσα () καύχησις () τοιαύτη () πονηρά () ἐστιν. ()
[17] Εἰδότι () οὖν () καλὸν () ποιεῖν () καὶ () μὴ () ποιοῦντι, () ἁμαρτία () αὐτῷ () ἐστίν. ()

James 4:1 N μάχαι ⇒ πόθεν μάχαι
James 4:4a N Μοιχοὶ καὶ ⇒ -
James 4:4b N ἂν ⇒ ἐὰν
James 4:5 N κατῴκησεν ⇒ κατῴκισεν
James 4:7 B δὲ ⇒ -
James 4:9 N μεταστραφήτω ⇒ μετατραπήτω
James 4:10 S τοῦ ⇒ -
James 4:11 N καὶ κρίνων ⇒ ἢ κρίνων
James 4:12a N ὁ νομοθέτης ⇒ [ὁ] νομοθέτης καὶ κριτής
James 4:12b N ὃς κρίνεις τὸν ἕτερον ⇒ ὁ κρίνων τὸν πλησίον
James 4:13a N καὶ αὔριον πορευσώμεθα ⇒ ἢ αὔριον πορευσόμεθα
James 4:13b N ποιήσωμεν ⇒ ποιήσομεν
James 4:13c N ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα ⇒ ἐνιαυτόν
James 4:13d N ἐμπορευσώμεθα ⇒ ἐμπορευσόμεθα
James 4:13e N κερδήσωμεν ⇒ κερδήσομεν
James 4:14a N γὰρ ἡ ⇒ ἡ
James 4:14b B ἔσται ⇒ ἐστιν
James 4:14c N ἔσται ⇒ ἐστε
James 4:14d N δὲ ⇒ -
James 4:15 N ζήσωμεν καὶ ποιήσωμεν ⇒ ζήσομεν καὶ ποιήσομεν