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A Warning against Pride
4 What [causes] conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t [they] [come] from [the] passions at war within you 2 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. 3 [And when] you do ask {you do} not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander [it] on your pleasures.
4 [You] adulterers and adulteresses![fn] 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[fn] an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason [that] the Spirit[fn] who dwells[fn] in us yearns with envy?
6 But He gives [us] more grace. This is why it says: God opposes [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] humble.”[fn]
Drawing Near to God
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and [your] joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 Brothers, [do] not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against [his] brother and[fn] 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]. 12 There is only one Lawgiver,[fn] the [One who] is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge the other?[fn]
Do Not Boast about Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, “Today and[fn] tomorrow let us go[fn] to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” 14 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.
15 Instead, you [ought] to say, “If the Lord is willing, let us live[fn] and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. 17 Anyone, then, who knows [the] right thing to do, yet fails to do [it], is guilty of sin.
4:4 See Hosea 3:1; CT You adulteresses!
4:4 Or is appointed
4:5 Or the spirit
4:5 CT He caused to dwell
4:6 Proverbs 3:34 (see also LXX)
4:11 CT or
4:12 CT, F35, and GOC include and Judge.
4:12 CT to judge your neighbor?
4:13 CT and Scrivener TR or
4:13 CT, GOC, and Scrivener TR we will go
4:15 GOC, CT, and Scrivener TR we will live