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| 4:1 |
 rom whence come warres and fightings among you? come they not hence, euen of your lusts, that warre in your members? |
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| 4:2 |
Ye lust, and haue not: yee kill, and desire to haue, and cannot obtaine: yee fight and warre, yet yee haue not, because ye aske not. |
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| 4:3 |
Ye aske and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that yee may consume it vpon your lusts. |
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| 4:4 |
Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God. |
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| 4:5 |
Doe ye thinke that the Scripture saith in vaine, the spirit that dwelleth in vs lusteth to enuy? |
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| 4:6 |
But he giueth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proude, but giueth grace vnto the humble. |
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| 4:7 |
Submit your selues therefore to God: resist the deuill, and hee will flee from you. |
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| 4:8 |
Draw nigh to God, and hee will draw nigh to you: cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purifie your hearts yee double minded. |
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| 4:9 |
Bee afflicted, and mourne, and weepe: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your ioy to heauinesse. |
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| 4:10 |
Humble your selues in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you vp. |
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| 4:11 |
Speake not euill one of another (brethren:) he that speaketh euill of his brother, and iudgeth his brother, speaketh euill of the Law, and iudgeth the Law: but if thou iudge the Law, thou art not a doer of the Law, but a iudge. |
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| 4:12 |
There is one Lawgiuer, who is able to saue, and to destroy: who art thou that iudgest another? |
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| 4:13 |
Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morrow wee will goe into such a city and continue there a yere, and buy, and sell, and get gaine: |
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| 4:14 |
Whereas yee know not what shalbe on the morow: for what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and then vanisheth away. |
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| 4:15 |
For that yee ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall liue, and doe this, or that. |
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| 4:16 |
But now yee reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill. |
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| 4:17 |
Therefore to him that knoweth to doe good, and doth it not, to him it is sinne. |
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