{"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/ylt/james/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:29:07.525Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 4 (YLT)","markdown":"[James 4](https://primebible.com/ylt/james/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/james/4 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}