James 4
4:1 You know where all the fights and quarrels among you come from. They come from your desires for pleasure, which are always fighting in you. 4:2 You want something, but you cannot have it. So you are ready to kill. You desire it so much that you quarrel and fight for it. But you cannot obtain it. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. 4:3 When you do ask, you do not receive anything. This is because you ask for the wrong reason. 4:4 You are like a wife who has sex with other men. You ought to know that to be the world’s friend is to be God’s enemy. All who want to be friends of the world make themselves enemies of God. 4:5 The
4:11 My Christian brothers and sisters, do not say bad things about one another. If you speak against another person you are
4:13 Now then, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this city or to that one. We will stay a year there. We will buy and sell and get rich.’ Listen to me. 4:14 You do not know what will happen tomorrow. Your life is like a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears. 4:15 What you ought to say is, ‘If it is what God wants, we will live here or there. If he wants it, we will do this or that’. 4:16 As it is, you are proud. And you talk about what you will do. You speak as if you are able to make it happen. It is wrong to speak like this. Only God knows and can make things happen. 4:17 So, we all know the good things that we ought to do. If we do not do them, we are