James 44JamesHumility, wealth and patienceLiteral Standard Version

Literal Standard VersionBerean Standard Bible

1. A Warning against Pride

2. 1LSVFrom where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?BSBBSB: What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
3. 2LSVYou desire, and do not have, so you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, so you fight and war; and you do not have, because of your not asking;BSBBSB: You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
4. 3LSVyou ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend it in your pleasures.BSBBSB: And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
5. 4LSVAdulterers and adulteresses! Have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, may intend to be a friend of the world, he is designated as an enemy of God.BSBBSB: You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
6. 5LSVOr, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”BSBBSB: Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
7. 6LSVbut God gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”BSBBSB: But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

8. Drawing Near to God

9. 7LSVBe subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;BSBBSB: Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
10. 8LSVdraw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!BSBBSB: Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
11. 9LSVBe exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;BSBBSB: Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
12. 10LSVbe made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.BSBBSB: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
13. 11LSVDo not speak against one another, brothers; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, speaks against law, and judges law, and if you judge law, you are not a doer of law but a judge.BSBBSB: Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
14. 12LSVOne is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you—who are you that judges the other?BSBBSB: There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

15. Do Not Boast about Tomorrow

    (Proverbs 27:1)

16. 13LSVGo, now, you who are saying, “Today and tomorrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain,”BSBBSB: Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
17. 14LSVwho does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little while, and then is vanishing;BSBBSB: You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
18. 15LSVinstead, you ought to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;BSBBSB: Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
19. 16LSVbut now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;BSBBSB: As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
20. 17LSVto him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing it, it is sin to him.BSBBSB: Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

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