Warning Against Worldliness
1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions1 are yat war within you?2 2You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask zwrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4aYou adulterous people!3 Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? bTherefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit cthat he has made to dwell in us”? 6But dhe gives more grace. Therefore it says, e“God opposes the proud but dgives grace to the humble.” 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. fResist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8gDraw near to God, and he will draw near to you. hCleanse your hands, you sinners, and ipurify your hearts, jyou double-minded. 9kBe wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10lHumble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11mDo not speak evil against one another, brothers.4 The one who speaks against a brother or njudges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12There is only oone lawgiver and pjudge, he who is able to save and qto destroy. But rwho are you to judge your neighbor?
Boasting About Tomorrow
13Come now, you who say, s“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For tyou are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15Instead you ought to say, u“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. vAll such boasting is evil. 17wSo whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
James: His Desire for the Churches
James 4:11–27, James 5:1–20 Sermon • 49:04 • ID: gs1345
Planning Properly — Part One
James 4:13–17 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 38:16 • ID: 2595
Planning Properly — Part Two
James 4:13–17 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 33:55 • ID: 2596
Submitting to God — Part One
James 4:7–10 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 38:02 • ID: 2591
Submitting to God — Part Two
James 4:7–10 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 31:35 • ID: 2592
A Study in James, Volume 3
Warnings against Worldliness James 4:1–5:6 Series • ID: 15903
Warning to the Rich
1Come now, xyou rich, weep and howl for the ymiseries that are coming upon you. 2zYour riches have rotted and zyour garments are moth-eaten. 3Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. aYou have laid up treasure bin the last days. 4Behold, cthe wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and dthe cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of ethe Lord of hosts. 5fYou have lived on the earth in luxury and gin self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in ha day of slaughter. 6You have condemned and imurdered jthe righteous person. He does not resist you.
James: His Desire for the Churches
James 4:11–27, James 5:1–20 Sermon • 49:04 • ID: gs1345
Ill-Gotten Gain — Part One
James 5:1–6 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 39:09 • ID: 2609
Ill-Gotten Gain — Part Two
James 5:1–6 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 35:57 • ID: 2610
A Study in James, Volume 3
Warnings against Worldliness James 4:1–5:6 Series • ID: 15903Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.