James 4

1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?Cross-references: Gen 4:5 · Jer 17:9 · Matt 15:19 · Mark 7:21 · John 8:44 · Rom 7:5 · +17 more

2You 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.Cross-references: Prov 1:19 · Eccl 4:8 · Isa 7:12 · Hab 2:5 · Matt 7:7 · Luke 11:9 · +5 more

3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.Cross-references: Job 27:8 · Job 35:12 · Ps 18:41 · Ps 66:18 · Prov 1:28 · Prov 15:8 · +17 more

4You 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.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 50:18 · Ps 73:27 · Isa 57:3 · Jer 2:2 · +15 more

5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?Cross-references: Gen 4:5 · Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Gen 26:14 · Gen 30:1 · Gen 37:11 · +16 more

6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · Ex 15:9 · Ex 18:11 · 1Sam 2:3 · 2Chr 32:26 · 2Chr 33:12 · +27 more

7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.Cross-references: 1Sam 3:18 · 2Sam 15:26 · 2Ki 1:13 · 2Chr 30:8 · 2Chr 33:12 · Job 1:21 · +25 more

8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 15:2 · Job 9:30 · Job 16:17 · Job 17:9 · +33 more

9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.Cross-references: Job 30:31 · Ps 119:67 · Ps 119:71 · Ps 119:136 · Ps 126:5 · Prov 14:13 · +17 more

10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:9 · Job 22:29 · Ps 27:6 · Ps 28:9 · Ps 30:1 · Ps 113:7 · +7 more

11Don’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.Cross-references: Ps 140:11 · Matt 7:1 · Luke 6:37 · Rom 2:1 · Rom 2:13 · Rom 7:7 · +13 more

12Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?Cross-references: 1Sam 25:10 · Job 38:2 · Isa 33:22 · Matt 10:28 · Luke 12:5 · Rom 2:1 · +5 more

13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”Cross-references: Gen 11:3 · Gen 11:7 · Prov 27:1 · Eccl 2:1 · Isa 5:5 · Isa 24:2 · +5 more

14Yet 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.Cross-references: Job 7:6 · Job 9:25 · Job 14:1 · Ps 39:5 · Ps 89:47 · Ps 90:5 · +6 more

15For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”Cross-references: 2Sam 15:25 · Prov 19:21 · Lam 3:37 · Acts 18:21 · Rom 1:10 · Rom 15:32 · +3 more

16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.Cross-references: Ps 52:1 · Ps 52:7 · Prov 25:14 · Prov 27:1 · Isa 47:7 · Isa 47:10 · +4 more

17To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.Cross-references: Luke 12:47 · John 9:41 · John 13:17 · John 15:22 · Rom 1:20 · Rom 1:32 · +3 more