Modern Literal Version
[James 4]

     ^4:1 From where are the wars and quarrels among you^*coming from? Is it not from here, from your^* own sensual-delights which are warring in your^* members? ^4:2 You^* lust and do not have; you^* murder and are jealous and are not able to obtain; you^* quarrel and make war; you^* do not have, because you^* do not ask for yourself. ^4:3 You^* ask and do not receive, because you^* ask evilly, in order that you^* may spend it in your^* sensual-delights.

     ^4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses, do you^* not know that the friendship of the world is hostilitytoward God? Therefore, whoever wills to be a friend of the world is designated as an enemy of God. ^4:5 Or are you^* thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness? Does the Spirit who dwelt in us long to envy? ^4:6 But he is giving greater grace. Hence the Scripture says, 'God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.' {Prov 3:34}

     ^4:7 Therefore, be^* subject to God and stand^* against the devil, and he will be fleeing away from you^*. ^4:8 Draw^* near to God and he will be drawing near to you^*. Cleanse^*your^* hands sinners and purify^*your^* hearts you^* indecisive! ^4:9 Be^* miserable and mourn^* and weep^*. Let your^* laughter be turned to mourning and your^* joy be turned to gloom. ^4:10 Humble^* yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will be exalting you^*.

     ^4:11 Brethren do^* not speak against one another. He who is speaking against a brother and is judging his brother, is speaking against the law and is judging the law. Now if you are judgingthe law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ^4:12 There is the one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judges the other?

     ^4:13 Proceed on now, you^* who are saying, Today and the next-day, we should travel into this city and should spend one year there and be a merchant and make^* a gain. ^4:14 You^* do not know what the next-day will bring, for^* what is your^* life? For^* it will be a vapor, which appears for a small time but also thereafter disappears. ^4:15 Instead of that, you^* should say, If the Lord wills, and we should also live, then we might do^* this or that. ^4:16 But now you^* boast in your^*variousself-importances. All such boasting is evil. ^4:17 Therefore knowing to do^* good and not doing^*it, to him, it is sin.

Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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