# James 4 ## James 4:1 - [KJV] From whence *come* wars and fightings among you? *come they* not hence, *even* of your lusts that war in your members? - [ASV] Whence *come* wars and whence *come* fightings among you? *come they* not hence, *even* of your pleasures that war in your members? - [YLT] Whence *are* wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? ### Notes on James 4:1 - ## James 4:2 - [KJV] Ye 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. - [ASV] Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. - [YLT] 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; ### Notes on James 4:2 - ## James 4:3 - [KJV] Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume *it* upon your lusts. - [ASV] Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend *it* in your pleasures. - [YLT] ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend *it*. ### Notes on James 4:3 - ## James 4:4 - [KJV] Ye 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. - [ASV] Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on James 4:4 - ## James 4:5 - [KJV] Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? - [ASV] Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? - [YLT] Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' ### Notes on James 4:5 - ## James 4:6 - [KJV] But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. - [ASV] But he giveth more grace. Wherefore *the scripture* saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. - [YLT] 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?' ### Notes on James 4:6 - ## James 4:7 - [KJV] Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - [ASV] Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - [YLT] be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; ### Notes on James 4:7 - ## James 4:8 - [KJV] Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse *your* hands, *ye* sinners; and purify *your* hearts, *ye* double minded. - [ASV] Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. - [YLT] draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! ### Notes on James 4:8 - ## James 4:9 - [KJV] Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and *your* joy to heaviness. - [ASV] Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. - [YLT] be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; ### Notes on James 4:9 - ## James 4:10 - [KJV] Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. - [ASV] Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. - [YLT] be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you. ### Notes on James 4:10 - ## James 4:11 - [KJV] Speak 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. - [ASV] Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. - [YLT] 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; ### Notes on James 4:11 - ## James 4:12 - [KJV] There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? - [ASV] One *only* is the lawgiver and judge, *even* he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor? - [YLT] one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other? ### Notes on James 4:12 - ## James 4:13 - [KJV] Go 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: - [ASV] Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: - [YLT] 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;' ### Notes on James 4:13 - ## James 4:14 - [KJV] Whereas 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. - [ASV] whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. - [YLT] 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; ### Notes on James 4:14 - ## James 4:15 - [KJV] For that ye *ought* to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. - [ASV] For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. - [YLT] instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;' ### Notes on James 4:15 - ## James 4:16 - [KJV] But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. - [ASV] But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. - [YLT] and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil; ### Notes on James 4:16 - ## James 4:17 - [KJV] Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth *it* not, to him it is sin. - [ASV] To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. - [YLT] to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him. ### Notes on James 4:17 -