{"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/web/james/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:55:39.282Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, |God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.|"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Be subject therefore to God. But 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":"Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Don'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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Come now, you who say, |Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.|"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whereas 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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For you ought to say, |If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.|"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 4 (WEB)","markdown":"[James 4](https://primebible.com/web/james/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/james/4 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}