James 4

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Here are gives warning against corrupt affections, and love of this world, which is enmity to God

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it. 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.
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure. You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God. 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.
Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us? Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him. But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you. Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Words urging undertake no affairs of life, without constant regard to the will and God's care of God

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge. 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.
There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge? Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. 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.
But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that. For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil. But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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