{"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/erv/james/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T17:24:47.419Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded."},{"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 exalt you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbour?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 4 (ERV)","markdown":"[James 4](https://primebible.com/erv/james/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/james/4 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}