{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/james/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T08:50:17.630Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Go to now, you 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:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 4 (AKJV)","markdown":"[James 4](https://primebible.com/akjv/james/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/james/4 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}