James 4

DOUAI-RHEIMS	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?	1 What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
2 You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.	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 receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.	3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.	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 think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?	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 giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.	6 But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.	7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.	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 afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.	9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.	10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.	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, that is able to destroy and to deliver.	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 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our gain.	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 know not what shall be on the morrow.	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 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.	15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that."
16 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.	16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.	17 Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.