James 4

Verse 1

WEB Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

KJV From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

TSK whence: jas 3:14-18; come they: jas 1:14, ge 4:5-8, jer 17:9, mt 15:19, mr 7:21-23, joh 8:44, ro 8:7, 1ti 6:4-10, tit 3:3, 1pe 1:14, 1pe 2:11, 1pe 4:2,3, 2pe 2:18, 2pe 3:3, 1jo 2:15-17, jude 1:16-18; lusts: jas 4:3; in: ro 7:5,23, ga 5:17, col 3:5

Verse 2

WEB You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

KJV Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

TSK lust: jas 5:1-5, pr 1:19, ec 4:8, hab 2:5, 1ti 6:9,10; because: jas 1:5, isa 7:12, mt 7:7,8, lu 11:9-13, joh 4:10, joh 16:24

Verse 3

WEB You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

KJV Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

TSK ask, and: jas 1:6,7, job 27:8-10, job 35:12, ps 18:41, ps 66:18,19, pr 1:28, pr 15:8, pr 21:13,27, isa 1:15,16, jer 11:11,14, jer 14:12, mic 3:4, zec 7:13, mt 20:22, mr 10:38, 1jo 3:22, 1jo 5:14; ye may: lu 15:13,30, lu 16:1,2; lusts: jas 4:1

Verse 4

WEB You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

KJV Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

TSK adulterers: ps 50:18, ps 73:27, isa 57:3, jer 9:2, ho 3:1, mt 12:39, mt 16:4; the friendship: joh 7:7, joh 15:19,23, joh 17:14, 1jo 2:15,16; enmity: ge 3:15, ro 8:7; whosoever: ga 1:10; is the: ps 21:8, lu 19:27, joh 15:23,24, ro 5:10

Verse 5

WEB Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

KJV Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

TSK the scripture: joh 7:42, joh 10:35, joh 19:37, ro 9:17, ga 3:8; The spirit: ge 4:5,6, ge 6:5, ge 8:21, ge 26:14, ge 30:1, ge 37:11, nu 11:29, ps 37:1, ps 106:16, pr 21:10, ec 4:4, isa 11:13, ac 7:9, ro 1:29, tit 3:3

Verse 6

WEB But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

KJV But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

TSK God: ex 10:3,4, ex 15:9,10, ex 18:11, 1sa 2:3, job 22:29, job 40:10-12, ps 138:6, pr 3:34, pr 6:16,17, pr 29:23, isa 2:11,12,17, isa 10:8-14, isa 16:6,7, da 4:37, da 5:20-23, mt 23:12, lu 1:52, lu 14:11, lu 18:14, 1pe 5:5; giveth grace: 2ch 32:26, 2ch 33:12,19,23, 2ch 34:27, job 22:29, ps 9:12, pr 15:33, pr 18:12, pr 22:4, isa 57:15

Verse 7

WEB Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

KJV Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

TSK Submit: 1sa 3:18, 2sa 15:26, 2ki 1:13-15, 2ch 30:8, 2ch 33:12,13, job 1:21, job 40:3-5, job 42:1-6, ps 32:3-5, ps 66:3, ps 68:30, jer 13:18, da 4:25,32,34-37, mt 11:29, ac 9:6, ac 16:29-31, ac 26:19, ro 10:3, ro 14:11, eph 5:21, heb 12:9, 1pe 2:13; Resist: mt 4:3-11, lu 4:2-13, eph 4:27, eph 6:11,12, 1pe 5:8,9, re 12:9-11

Verse 8

WEB Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

KJV Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

TSK Draw nigh to God: ge 18:23, 1ch 28:9, 2ch 15:2, ps 73:28, ps 145:18, isa 29:13, isa 55:6,7, ho 6:1,2, zec 1:3, mal 3:7, heb 7:19, heb 10:22; Cleanse: job 9:30, job 16:17, job 17:9, ps 18:20, ps 24:4, ps 26:6, ps 73:13, isa 1:15,16, isa 13:15, mt 15:2, mt 27:24, 1ti 2:8, 1pe 3:21; purity: ps 51:6,7,10, jer 4:11, eze 18:31, eze 36:25-27, mt 12:33, mt 23:25,26, lu 11:39,40, ac 15:9, 2co 7:1, 1pe 1:22, 1jo 3:3; ye double: jas 1:8

Verse 9

WEB Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

KJV Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

TSK afflicted: jas 5:1,2, ps 119:67,71,136, ps 126:5,6, ec 7:2-5, isa 22:12,13, jer 31:9,13,18-20, eze 7:16, eze 16:63, zec 12:10-14, mt 5:4, lu 6:21, 2co 7:10,11; let: job 30:31, pr 14:13, ec 2:2, ec 7:6, la 5:15, lu 6:25, lu 16:25, re 18:7,8

Verse 10

WEB Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

KJV Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

TSK Humble: jas 4:6,7; he: 1sa 2:9, job 22:29, ps 27:6, ps 28:9, ps 30:1, ps 113:7, ps 147:6, mt 23:12, lu 14:11, lu 18:14, 1pe 5:6

Verse 11

WEB Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

KJV Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

TSK Speak: ps 140:11, eph 4:31, 1ti 3:11, 2ti 3:3, tit 2:3, 1pe 2:1; and judgeth: mt 7:1,2, lu 6:37, ro 2:1, ro 14:3,4,10-12, 1co 4:5; speaketh evil of the law: ro 7:7,12,13; a doer: jas 1:22,23,25, ro 2:13

Verse 12

WEB Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

KJV There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

TSK lawgiver: isa 33:22; able: mt 10:28, lu 12:5, heb 7:25; who: 1sa 25:10, job 38:2, ro 2:1, ro 9:20, ro 14:4,13

Verse 13

WEB Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

KJV Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

TSK Go to: jas 5:1, ge 11:3,4,7, ec 2:1, isa 5:5; To day: pr 27:1, isa 56:12, lu 12:17-20; and buy: isa 24:2, isa 56:11, eze 7:12, 1co 7:30

Verse 14

WEB Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

KJV Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

TSK a vapour: jas 1:10, job 7:6,7, job 9:25,26, job 14:1,2, ps 39:5, ps 89:47, ps 90:5-7, ps 102:3, isa 38:12, 1pe 1:24, 1pe 4:7, 1jo 2:17

Verse 15

WEB For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

KJV For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

TSK If: 2sa 15:25,26, pr 19:21, la 3:37, ac 18:21, ro 1:10, ro 15:32, 1co 4:19, 1co 16:7, heb 6:3

Verse 16

WEB But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

KJV But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

TSK But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.: jas 3:14, ps 52:1,7, pr 25:14, pr 27:1, isa 47:7,8,10, 1co 4:7,8, 1co 5:6, re 18:7

Verse 17

WEB To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

KJV Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

TSK Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.: lu 12:47,48, joh 9:41, joh 13:17, joh 15:22, ro 1:20,21,32, ro 2:17-23, ro 7:13