James 4
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1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2Ye 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.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4Ye 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.
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his 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.
12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13Go 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:
14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Preached on James 4 23
- On Friendship with the WorldJohn Wesley · James 4:4 · No. 80
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- The Folly of Trusting to the FutureJohn Henry Hobart · James 4:14 · No. 3
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- Submission to God Pt 1Charles Grandison Finney · James 4:7 · 6 January 1841 · No. 25
- Submission to God Pt. 2Charles Grandison Finney · James 4:7 · 20 January 1841 · No. 26
- Rejoicing in BoastingsCharles Grandison Finney · James 4:16 · 26 March 1845
- Conditions of Prevailing Prayer Pt. 3Charles Grandison Finney · James 4:3 · 21 July 1847
- On SinningCharles Grandison Finney · James 4:17 · 5 August 1857
- A Sacred Nearness to God RecommendedWilliam Douglass · James 4:1–999 · No. 11
- Christ and the WorldHoratius Bonar · James 4:4 · No. 32
- Unconditional SurrenderCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:7 · 30 January 1876 · No. 1276
- The Reason Why Many Cannot Find PeaceCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:7–10 · 7 April 1878 · No. 1408
- Ask and HaveCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:2–3 · 1 October 1882 · No. 1682
- What Is Your Life?Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:14 · 30 March 1884 · No. 1773
- God's Will About the FutureCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:13–17 · 7 February 1892 · No. 2242
- The Double Drawing NearCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:8 · 7 September 1902 · No. 2795
- Pictures of LifeCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:14 · 7 January 1909 · No. 3126
- A Command and a PromiseCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:8 · 25 August 1910 · No. 3212
- More and MoreCharles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:6 · 20 May 1915 · No. 3459
- “What is Your Life?”Henry Drummond · James 4:14 · No. 12
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