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Warning Against Worldliness

James 4:1 - 17 (NASB) CHAPTER 4Things to Avoid4 1[M]Lit From where wars and from where fightings What is the source of quarrels and aTitus 3:9 conflicts among you? [N]Lit Are they not from here, from your Is not the source your pleasures that wage bRom 7:23war in your members? 2You lust and do not have; so you aJames 5:6; 1 John 3:15commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3You ask and a1 John 3:22; 5:14do not receive, because you ask [O]Lit wickedly with wrong motives, so that you may spend it [P]Lit in on your pleasures. 4You aJer 2:2; Ezek 16:32 adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with bJames 1:27 the world is cRom 8:7; 1 John 2:15 hostility toward God? dMatt 6:24; John 15:19Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you think that the Scripture aNum 23:19 speaks to no purpose: “[Q]Or The spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy He [R]Lit desires to jealousy jealously desires b1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 6:16the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”? 6But aIs 54:7f; Matt 13:12 He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “bPs 138:6; Prov 3:34; Matt 23:12; 1 Pet 5:5God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” 7a1 Pet 5:6 Submit therefore to God. bEph 4:27; 6:11f; 1 Pet 5:8fResist the devil and he will flee from you. 8a2 Chr 15:2; Zech 1:3; Mal 3:7; Heb 7:19 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. bJob 17:9; Is 1:16; 1 Tim 2:8 Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and cJer 4:14; James 3:17; 1 Pet 1:22; 1 John 3:3 purify your hearts, you dJames 1:8double-minded. 9aNeh 8:9; Prov 14:13; Luke 6:25Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10aJob 5:11; Ezek 21:26; Luke 1:52; James 4:6Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. 11a2 Cor 12:20; James 5:9; 1 Pet 2:1 Do not speak against one another, bJames 1:16; 5:7, 9, 10 brethren. He who speaks against a brother or cMatt 7:1; Rom 14:4 judges his brother, speaks against dJames 2:8 the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not eJames 1:22a doer of the law but a judge of it. 12There is only one aIs 33:22; James 5:9 Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is bMatt 10:28 able to save and to destroy; but cRom 14:4who are you who judge your neighbor? 13aJames 5:1 Come now, you who say, “bProv 27:1; Luke 12:18-20Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14[S]Lit Who do not Yet you do not know [T]Or what will happen tomorrow. What kind of life is yours? what your life will be like tomorrow. aJob 7:7; Ps 39:5; 102:3; 144:4You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 15[U]Lit Instead of your saying Instead, you ought to say, “aActs 18:21If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16But as it is, you boast in your [V]Or pretensions arrogance; a1 Cor 5:6all such boasting is evil. 17Therefore, aLuke 12:47; John 9:41; 2 Pet 2:21to one who knows the [W]Or good right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin. James 4:1 - 17 (NASB)