James 4 (NET)

James 4:1¹Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:11Gal 5:17Rom 7:23Jas 1:14Rom 8:71 John 2:15-17Jer 17:9Jude 1:16-181 Pet 1:14Col 3:5

James 4:2²You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 16:24Matt 7:7-8Jas 1:5Luke 11:9-13John 4:101 Tim 6:9-10Jas 5:1-5Prov 1:19Hab 2:5

James 4:3³you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:141 John 3:22Jas 1:6-7Jas 4:1Prov 15:8Mic 3:4Ps 66:18-19Job 35:12Zech 7:13Job 27:8-10

James 4:4⁴Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:15-16Rom 8:7John 15:19Matt 6:24Gal 1:10John 17:14Jas 1:27John 15:23-24Rom 5:10Hos 3:1

James 4:5⁵Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 6:161 Cor 6:19Num 11:29Titus 3:3Gen 8:21Ps 37:1

James 4:6⁶But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 23:12Prov 3:341 Pet 5:5Prov 18:12Ps 138:6Prov 29:23Prov 6:16-17Prov 22:4Isa 2:11-12Job 22:29

James 4:7⁷So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:8-9Eph 4:27Eph 6:11-121 Pet 5:6Luke 4:2-13Matt 4:3-11Heb 12:9Rom 10:3Matt 11:292 Chr 30:8

James 4:8⁸Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 145:18Heb 10:22Mal 3:7Zech 1:3Isa 55:6-72 Chr 15:2Hos 6:1-2Jer 4:14Ezek 36:25-27Ps 51:6-7

James 4:9⁹Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:10-11Matt 5:4Luke 6:25Prov 14:13Jas 5:1-2Ps 119:67Eccl 7:2-6Ezek 16:63Jer 31:18-20Rev 18:7-8

James 4:10¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 147:6Matt 23:121 Pet 5:6Luke 14:11Jas 4:6-7Job 22:29Ps 113:7Luke 1:521 Sam 2:9Luke 18:14

James 4:11¹¹Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:1Jas 5:9Rom 2:1Luke 6:37Matt 7:1-2Ps 140:111 Cor 4:5Eph 4:31Rom 14:10-122 Cor 12:20

James 4:12¹²But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge—the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 14:4Rom 2:1Matt 10:28Isa 33:22Heb 7:25Jas 5:9Rom 14:13Job 38:2Luke 12:5Rom 9:20

James 4:13¹³Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 27:1Luke 12:17-20Gen 11:3-4Eccl 2:1Ezek 7:12Isa 24:2Isa 56:11-12Jas 5:11 Cor 7:30Gen 11:7

James 4:14¹⁴You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:24Ps 39:51 John 2:17Ps 102:3Job 7:6-7Jas 1:10Job 14:1-2Job 9:25-26Ps 90:5-7Ps 89:47

James 4:15¹⁵You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 19:21Heb 6:3Lam 3:37Acts 18:21Rom 1:101 Cor 16:7Rom 15:321 Cor 4:192 Sam 15:25-26

James 4:16¹⁶But as it is, you boast about your arrogant plans. All such boasting is evil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 27:11 Cor 5:6Ps 52:7Prov 25:141 Cor 4:7-8Isa 47:10Jas 3:14Ps 52:1Rev 18:7Isa 47:7-8

James 4:17¹⁷So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:41John 13:17John 15:222 Pet 2:21Luke 12:47-48Rom 1:32Rom 2:17-23Rom 1:20-21Rom 7:13