{"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/kjv/james/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:36:03.608Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"From whence <i>come</i> wars and fightings among you? <i>come they</i> not hence, <i>even</i> of your lusts that war in your members?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume <i>it</i> upon your lusts."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse <i>your</i> hands, <i>ye</i> sinners; and purify <i>your</i> hearts, <i>ye</i> double minded."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and <i>your</i> 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, brethren. He that speaketh evil of <i>his</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whereas ye know not what <i>shall be</i> on the morrow. For what <i>is</i> your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For that ye <i>ought</i> to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth <i>it</i> not, to him it is sin."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 4 (KJV)","markdown":"[James 4](https://primebible.com/kjv/james/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/james/4 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}