1 What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
2 You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4 Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us"?
6 But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
11 Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbor?
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain";
14 whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that."
16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Versículos relacionados com James, 4:
James chapter 4 approaches mainly the theme of humility and submission to God, warning against arrogance and the pursuit of worldly pleasure. The chapter also addresses the importance of seeking God's will and resisting the devil. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in James 4:
Proverbs 3:34: "He mocks the mocking, but grants grace to the humble." This verse talks about the importance of humility and how God gives grace to the humble, but resists arrogant.
1 Peter 5:5: "Similarly, young people are subjected to the elders. They are all humble to each other, because 'God is opposed to the proud, but grants grace to the humble.' This verse reinforces the importance of humility and submission to God, citing a passage similar to that quoted by James in his chapter.
1 John 2:15-17: "Do not love the world or what is there. If someone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world-the greed of the flesh, the greed of the eyes And the ostentation of goods - do not come from the Father, but the world. The world and his greed pass, but he who does God's will remains forever. " This verse warns of the pursuit of worldly pleasure and the importance of seeking God's will.
Ephesians 4:27: "And don't give way to the devil." This verse talks about the importance of resisting the devil, warning that he can find a breach if we don't keep ourselves firm in God.
1 Peter 5:8: "Be sober and watch. The devil, your enemy, walks around as a lion, roaring and seeking to those who can devour." This verse reinforces the importance of being alert against the devil's temptations, citing a passage similar to that cited by James in his chapter.
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